catch up on my uni readings with me

[@HeIsFullyBooked]

"This is Jane Eyre and it follows..... Jane Eyre." I'm sold.

[@salomekochalski1947]

Having to force yourself to read the books because they were assigned to you instead of being freely chosen is such a mood. I´m always exiting to see a new upload from you, your voice is so relaxing I could listen you talk about books for hours on end!

[@tkh22]

An HOUR!!!! of Frankie is crazy. What a blessing for my feed. lfg

[@unravelingrachel]

I love that you did indeed hold the candle the entire time

[@watchfleabag]

i really admire that you are reading these books even though they’re not your favorite/you aren’t drawn to them… when i was in uni for literature, i would only read what i was interested in and skipped reading stuff i was assigned that i didn’t think i would enjoy (other than the first and last chapter + sparknotes so i could complete assignments and talk in class). i don’t 100% regret it because it sharpened my bullshitting muscle to precision, but i do kinda wish i had gone this route and challenged my “taste” more. i think my disillusionment with the stuff i was assigned (which i felt because i didnt even try to fucking read most of it lmao) made me averse to academic reading for 2 whole years after i finished school. i am just now getting back into books that challenge me. so good for you for embracing challenge! anyways. i’m not sure what im saying here but i absolutely love your channel and your love for reading inspires me. also your space is very cool!

[@Purrfectblu]

You are HILARIOUS! It was so much fun listening to you talk about Jane Eyre it felt like I was listening to some VERY juicy gossip! Some of the classics feel very intimidating and not very appealing to me, but you made them feel so accessible!

[@vdrazdik]

I remember reading Jane Eyre as a kid and being bowled over by the vocab. There is a scene at the boarding school where a teacher accuses a girl of having too much “excrescence” and makes her stand face first against a wall. Even the dictionary didn’t help. From context clues I realized this girl just had big boobs and they were trying to make her squish them down or something 🫣 I gotta say I love how all this dark awful stuff is buried under a veneer of respectable language, just like how Mr Rochester pretends to be respectable…there’s a word for that poetic device, I think, where the way you tell the story reinforces the theme.

[@helen-tc7ti]

Please post more content about your major, if possible. You telling us about the books you're reading for university and your journey with these books, I really do enjoy all of your videos. You're videos have a sense of comfort, it's like I'm chilling out with a friend and it's really lovely to listen to you ^^ Thank you❤

[@nicoledorman8484]

Look, I agree this was a boring, difficult read, but Rochester dragging it up as a fortune teller woman to ask his crush if she likes him had me CACKLING! Why does he do the most!?

[@frankiesshelf]

honestly he’s actually so funny like what a ridiculous little man

[@gabulosis]

Jane Eyre is the book that put me into a reading slump for like five years after high school 😫

[@frankiesshelf]

if i had to read jane eyre in high school it would have been the end of my life

[@gabulosis]

@@frankiesshelf it was literally our summer read going into freshman year and I was ready to drop out lol

[@istrashqueen]

I discovered your channel yesterday and I'm trying watch your videos slowly. your content is so decadent and I just want to devour it all in one sitting but I feel I should savor it because waiting for your next videos will be incredibly hard.

[@OliviaFlake-ed7xl]

most classic audio books r free on spotify btw! i’m listening to jane ayre rn and listening or listening while reading goes by sm quicker

[@madworld1962]

For anyone who couldn't get enough of Jane Eyre there's Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. It was written in 1966 as a prequel to Jane Eyre. I'm thinking you won't be rushing out to read it😆

[@beatrixe]

I feel your pain! Reading an 800 pages classic just teaches you, you can’t speed it like with modern fiction 😭😭😭

[@Matt-v8v]

I think it is a great idea to read it and talk about it. It will help you get through it and remember what you read even if it bores you! Keep it up!

[@fizzgiggx]

gothic fiction is arguably one of my favourite genres - its romance but not really, confronting life with spooky shit going on!! sign me up!!!

[@wereprofessionals9521]

I usually watch the film and then tackle the classic read. The residual visuals from the film help me through the novels “boring” parts. Hope this is helpful!

[@DoofDoofMcbling]

We need a book club

[@frankiesshelf]

i would do anything to have a book club but i’m so scared it’s just gonna be me and one other person lol

[@DoofDoofMcbling]

@@frankiesshelfI have a hunch that a lot people would love to be in a book club with you

[@Liz-us8mf]

I have been desperate for a good book club for the longest time! I just discovered this channel and love the variety of books so I’d definitely join.

[@Majaverymighty]

@@frankiesshelf im in!!

[@emotionally_invested]

@@frankiesshelfI would join this book club

[@Liz-us8mf]

The podcast “Woahmance” did a chapter by chapter read along of Jane Eyre that I really enjoyed. It’s two friends alternating reading chapters to each other & giving a bit of commentary. I think their analysis added something positive to the reading experience for me, I felt like I was reading it for book club! I will say that they gave spoilers for what was to come in the early chapters, but I think if you’ve already watched this video that probably won’t matter for you. I highly recommend!

[@chloepoudrier9309]

I'm glad I watched this because when I read Jane Eyre in college I really enjoyed it but forgot alot of the story. So thanks for helping me conjure it back up 😋 I loved Jane as a character; a badass self respecting woman who loves her nature walks

[@MariusMoonbeam]

I really liked Jane Eyre when we read it in college (2 yrs ago my senior yr). It’s a great book to talk about female agency, who is actually a villain, and various other themes. I do wish we would actually change the literature we read in schools though

[@ninbin34]

mrs. dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

[@frankiesshelf]

goes crazy

[@morindahoelzle559]

I love your videos!! Ugh, you do the perfect amount of analysis :)

[@notanerd6529]

You should totally read Han Kang if you’re feeling something more contemporary. I work at a bookstore in Sweden and we were livestreaming the Nobel prize announcement lmao, she’s definitely a fan favorite amongst the staff. The Vegetarian is some of the best literature I’ve read in my liiiiife omg it’s so good

[@frankiesshelf]

i’m actually mid way through the vegetarian right now and it’s SO GOOD

[@notanerd6529]

@ yaaassss!!!

[@eword97]

Breaking the spine out of spite and hatred is so real

[@Handmedownmac2]

Jane Eyre…read it at the perfect time in my life. I read it while literally walking, it was so moody. Ended up being my favorite book (tied with American Psycho). Mr. Rochester is the ultimate dork.

[@fionagraham4338]

I absolutely LOVE your videos and hearing you yap about books- please keep doing what you’re doing! Love from Scotland xx

[@natalieelizabeth9052]

The candle really did seal the deal 😂

[@stanloona000]

Also, tip. Try to listen to the audiobook while reading so that you're forced to keep the read by the audio. But it also helps with retaining info because you're taking it by audio and visually. That helped me

[@frankiesshelf]

i want this to work for me soo bad

[@Juliana-Bub]

As someone who loves classics with denser prose and often has a hard time fully enjoying contemporary fiction, it's interesting to see the perspective of someone with the opposite feelings! You're great at expressing your thoughts and describing what you're reading. Fun fact about St. John in Jane Eyre. That name is pronounced sort of like "sinjin." I don't know exactly why, but it's a sort of regional thing. PS As a straight woman who has read Jane Eyre several times, I still don't know how to feel about the romance. But Charlotte Bronte fell in love with an older man during her life, so she wrote about that a lot. PPS I highly recommend The Waves by Woolf.

[@abbycarter6030]

You have no idea how much better my day is when I see you posted a new video! And this one’s an HOUR blessed be kitty girl 🙏🏻

[@arianarosass]

When you talk about Rochester I think about Tomaki from Oran High School Host Club😭😭

[@MafaldaCVeiga]

Watch "the hours", it will make you want to read mrs dalloway

[@abbyanderson55]

Love when you explain something perfectly and then ask if that made sense 😅💕

[@cdrain23]

I don’t know how you do it, but you make boring classics that I would never read sound interesting. I could listen to you talk about anything💫

[@lilacleg3nd]

an hour of frankie today is a good day

[@francescadidio3619]

One interpretation i've read is that Jane and Mr. rochester can only be equals after he becomes disabled, because it makes him dependent on her in a way that also gives her agency over the relationship (which is kind of strange considering she is bound to him by this circumstance) but definitely an interesting way to see it

[@MariusMoonbeam]

Yeah this is the interpretation that my English lit class had in college after the ending

[@jaymianderson9665]

Okay, the vest, tie, and candle was TOPS. I loved hearing you hate this book ❤ Just because a book is famous, doesn’t make it good.

[@ArthurHudson-r7b]

I was so afraid that you wouldn't like Mrs Dalloway 😭 one of my favorites!

[@phophia]

When I have a book I would rather strangle myself than read, I either watch the movie in the hopes to reap some motivation, or I decide the only way I will get through it is if I get the audiobook and follow along in the book (I think it's called deep reading or something like that?). In this way the narrator carries me across the page and through the book. There's a little less effort and a lot more focus - focus is a struggle for me, esp. if I don't want to read a book, so ADHD readers this might help. Hope this helps bestie!

[@phophia]

You said the audiobook thing later but I'm leaving the comment :D

[@mmmichelle4327]

dejar lord i fucking love your videosss!!!‼️‼️

[@karsyleigh]

The aunt's level of petty is insane.

[@lisadixon9935]

Just started watching and I am cracking up. I LOVED Jane Eyre and Mrs. Dalloway. Lol I also loved The Year of Magical Thinking, Beloved and Ghost Wall which I know you also enjoyed. Keep with them, they start slow but are both wonderful reads. ❤ Update: Ok, just finished watching the whole video and so glad you persisted with both books. And btw, Rochester is an a-hole lol. One redeeming quality of his to me was him allowing Jane to express her feelings and emotions - not a freedom enjoyed by women in that time period. Your description of the shifting perspective in Mrs. Dalloway was perfect. And it is beautiful, delicious word soup! Try The Waves by Ms. Woolf too.

[@mcough]

My only awareness of Jane Eyre is that during lockdown my family and I tried to watch the National Theatre production they put on KZbin (slay) but we all fell asleep and stopped watching at the interval

[@amymalski]

👍

[@shelbiemclaughlin1570]

Mr. Rochester started the sassy man apocalypse

[@emma_margaret]

lol I remember loving Jane eyre when I read it at school but why was I getting so triggered listening to your descriptions of mr Rochester 🤨 I do not remember hating him but he sounds like exactly the kind of character I would hate now 🤣 alsoooo you should read ‘wide sargasso sea’ if you haven’t already, it’s by a different author but it gives a background to the ‘crazy woman’ in the attic that I think adds so much to the story

[@julialomotey]

I think a good classic with a a good story you would like is The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas. But it’s a 1,000 page book lol

[@frankiesshelf]

i think i would actually die

[@206glacier]

​@@frankiesshelfThere's an abridged version. Highly recommend. And no it's not cheating.

[@ChanelChapters]

The thing I hated about uni was being forced to read books I did not give a shit about

[@candyhyojung1860]

if charlotte bronte was alive today she would be a fan of the darkling .. that's the vibe mr rochester gives for me anyway lol

[@princesschuchu2845]

i’m sorry frankie but the way you describe rochester’s bullshit teenage boy antics is so funny…he’s such a weirdo…..

[@tifrobinette]

I love your thoughts! And like me, you pronounce words by reading, not by hearing them in the wild. St. John is (weirdly and against all logic) pronounced SIN-jin. So now you can sound worldly in class ❤

[@frankiesshelf]

lmao WHY?? i heard that in the audiobook and decided it was wrong

[@tifrobinette]

@ I don’t know but I once knew a very angry woman named St. John. She made sure everyone knew the correct pronunciation.

[@stanloona000]

Oof yeah, it do be like that. At the beggining it's exciting and then after a while you barely read, or skim, or read so fast you might as well haven't read because you don't remember anything lol. Been there, hated it. Everyone thinks it's easy because "you just read" but there's SO MUCH to read??!! There's not enough time. And then the mental exahustion. No thanks, I rather forget that period of my life

[@RobJJ996]

So this is completely random but im manifesting you reading Gideon the ninth soon enough 🕯️🕯️🕯️

[@fedjydanger4342]

I'm watching this after "Plant Based Bride"'s video about Jane Erye and your shared hate for Mr. Rochester is hilarious 😭

[@spark5149]

hi, straight woman here to report the “love” story was trash. it’s totally giving that “you learn to love someone (anyone) after a certain amount of time and bs you’ve been exposed to in life so you settle” but what do i know

[@dayoolorunnisola162]

I read Jane eyre in high school and I swear to god I don’t remember it being that boring 💀 like I didn’t LOVE it but thank you for reminding me it’s not worth going back to

[@danielsong6096]

1 like = 1 dish cloth

[@Adanonasad]

🤛💪😩😡

[@kayleefullerton3647]

The vest and tie with the candle took me out 😂

[@yassineodaily]

I enjoyed jane eyre more than Mrs dalloway fr and unfortunately Mrs dalloway is on the uni list for this semester ( Clarissa fkn dalloway is so borinnnnnnng)

[@y0landa0571]

giirrll (as in genderneutral) you’re TREATING us with this one hour of goodness🤌