Currently Reading | Comfort Reads, Jane Eyre & MORE!

[@alliswell-ei4fw]

Jane Eyre is definitely my favorite book of all time. I've read it twice. The first time I was more drawn to the tragedy of her childhood and this time around I found her relationship with Mr.Rochester to be super relatable to my current life. I can absolutely relate to each read having different meaning 😍

[@melissastanziale3584]

Hello Lucy, I'm sorry to hear that you've been ill. Welcome back! I'm reading The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope, which is terrific. It's my first Trollope experience, and I'm enjoying it. His writing is so realistic and accessible. The book is long, but I'm not intimidated. In fact, I think I want it to last as long as possible. LOL! I'm also reading Dickens' Christmas Books. I've read A Christmas Carol, The Cricket on the Hearth, and The Chimes. Now I'm on The Battle of Life. I adore Dickens, and the Christmas books are wonderful! There are so many themes in them - family, class, money, gender. It's great stuff! Just before I started Trollope and Dickens I reread The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I read it years ago when I was in my twenties, but I couldn't remember it. I thought it was a perfect read for Victober, and I was right! I love the theme of the divided self. Thank you for the recommendations you provided. I hope your health continues to improve.

[@rujahpoetess9166]

Yes I too want to reread Jane Eyre.. I've reread pride and prejudice, the 8th time.

[@xXbubbelXx]

Oh, I would love videos about newspapers and magazines! I have some publications I want to dive into myself and also look for more old photos and ads - because, yes, vintage ads are somehow just so much fun and/or incredibly beautiful.

[@aidenadamson7270]

I literally went to the Brontë parsonage museum in August

[@adrikamondal5186]

Lucy, I am so grateful to see you back talking vigorously about books. You are so brave and bold to fight all your difficulties and come back in a new form. You inspire me truly. You are thr one who intriguing me to read long books. I am also sometimes intimidated to read big books. I am trying to overcome it. I want to read Jane Eyre. It is on my bucket list for a very long time. I have enjoyed Anne Brontë's writings so I look forward to read all the Brontë's sister's novels. Apart from reading I am participating in many writing projects. I am freewriting as well. Love you🥰

[@liz-mc6bs]

I would love an Edwardian themed video ❤️

[@sunandmoodreads2333]

Aaah... Jane Eyre is my comfort read and YOU are my comfort watch on Booktube! So great to see you return 💕

[@v.5832]

ahhh, we missed you 💕💕💕

[@diana.r.c]

So nice to have you back!!! I’ve been reading Rebecca, as I want to watch the new film! Would you ever do a video about your favorite period drama series/films?? I would love to see that! Those are my guilty pleasure but I keep rewatching the ones I like!..

[@shonnarobertson6462]

Wonderful to see you back on KZbin. Hope you are starting to feel better, take it easy and don’t stress, take things at the pace you need to. Thinking good thoughts for all those heading back into lockdown. Reading wise over the last few months I have hit some children’s classics - Wind in the Willows, Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden to list a few. Also read Middlemarch and reread Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice. North and South is next up...

[@laurabrandusan2862]

I discovered you today and I had to hit the subscription button. You are amazing and I enjoy listening to your recommendations. Withering Heights by E. Bronte is on my list.

[@patriciabuuck5277]

Glad you are back. You inspire me to read the classics. I'm now reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. Very intriguing. Take care of you

[@alliswell-ei4fw]

How is it? The haunting of hill house was great. I've also heard great things about the Lottery.

[@evalondon6845]

Happy belated birthday, Lucy! But... the present came to us, we heard from you! 🤗 So glad to see you back, but do it at your pace. It's completely understandable that when you juggle with many things, some of them have to fall, at least temporarily. Children books and favourite re-reads are great for comfort. I hope you continue getting better 😘

[@dianewalker9154]

I reread The Secret Garden and LM Montgomery’s Anne Shirley series of books, through out the summer. Anne of Green Gables is laugh out loud funny!

[@BeatrixOnyx]

Welcome back, Lucy. 😊 Happy belated birthday for last week! I've been slowly making my way through the Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery. They're such a wonderful cosy book series to get into.

[@rosariosivianes2680]

Hello Lucy! I’m currently reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, which you recommended some time ago, and it’s really helping me cope with the situation right now (we are also in a similar lockdown again in Spain), so I wanted to truly thank you for recommending it 🙏🏻 Happy to see that you are back 😊💙

[@kathybolton2240]

So happy to see you back!!!!! Missed not hearing your favorite Victorian reads. Especially hoping you will be able to go in a new direction for your writing!

[@imaginativebibliophile549]

Lucy, It is lovely to have you back. My schoolwork has been stressful and I have been struggling with the novel I am currently writing. Everything has grown arduous because of fear and anxiety. I have been writing poetry to blossom joy within my presence. The novel I am writing happens to be a piece of children’s literature set in the past. I have been rereading my favorite books and Jane Eyre is always such a delight. There are so many struggles and I am pushing through them with hope. I am finding old friends through both reading and writing. I am rather pleased that my mental health is doing much better. Your videos bring about a soft smile on my face and I appreciate the magic. I love you

[@alonaj8401]

I am glad you're back! Welcome and hope everything is fine!

[@catreadsabunch]

I've read 30 books this year out of my goal of 40! I'm currently trying to pick a book and I think I'm going for Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. I have been doing okay. New job, new place. Some days are a struggle but overall things are good. I'm so glad you are back and feeling well. I look forward to hearing more about your Edwardian writing pursuits. Sending love ❤️

[@lisa60932]

Happy birthday! I’m so glad you’re back and doing better. I know how you feel about children’s books - I’m just coming off a really stressful few months at work and have my long awaited 2 weeks of annual leave coming up at the end of November. Working from home since March I knew I really needed to get out of my house for a staycation and had been looking forward to for months - then Ireland went into Level 5 again with us restricted to 5 km all November. I cried and was really down for days and then, trying to decide how to make my time off still escapist and refreshing, I went online and ordered all of the Malory Towers, Twins of St Clare’s, and Naughtiest Girl books which were my favourite when I was younger - I cheated and read the Naughtiest Girl ones this weekend and it was such a good idea, children’s books are wonderful and really will help my mindset! I also took your recommendation of ages ago and ordered a Georgette Heyer, my first - so can’t wait to see what I think of her!

[@TheEmmaLucille]

Reading "Where Angels Fear to Tread" by E.M. Foster and just started on "When Christ and His Saints Slept" by Sharon Penman, hopefully I'll like it because it's huge!

[@petitchocobo2905]

So glad to see you're feeling better! I discovered your channel about a week ago and you got me so excited about reading classics! since then I have bought quite a few penguin classic library books and I've read Rebecca and I'm finishing Little Women today! I think I'm gonna read some Jane Austen afterwards, Emma or Northanger Abbey! Take care

[@MissbigredHeart]

Welcome back, love. Glad you are feeling better

[@mariegondard]

Thank you Lucy for your great videos! Thanks to them, I have started reading English classics, in English! I am French, and I love French literature. Discovering English Literature, which is so wide, so rich, is like opening a large window over a new world to discover! I love it! I am currently finishing The woman in white by W Collins. The next one will be Women who did. I hope I'll like it as you did! Have a nice reading evening! Marie

[@maudhaugland5822]

Yes! Please do videos on Edwardian magazines! I read a bit of Girl's Own Paper and Boy's Own Paper for my publishing degree, and it was really interesting to look at and compare the two. Also, I really recommend the Nevermoor series by Jessica Townsend! It's a truly wonderful middle grade series. I just started A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, and although it wasn't exactly what I expected, I think I really enjoy it, but it's too early to say.

[@lara_bk]

Happy belated birthday! I‘m currently reading Emma, but after that I want to read some of Frances Hodgson Burnett‘s books (I‘ll start with Little Lord Fauntleroy since the adaptation of that book really is one of the most popular Christmas movies here in Germany). Hope you all have a great day!

[@janicemacdougall1844]

So good to see a video by you, you have had a very busy year with university and writing your book(s) and Covid. Take care of yourself and your health :) I have just put Look Back with Love on my TBR list this weekend and will have to check the other books you mentioned.

[@bet3476]

in march, my french class was making us read le Comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) and I was having such a hard time trying to understand it that it put me in a reading slump ever since. Though I just bought Tuck Everlasting yesterday so I'm hoping that it will break me out of the slump

[@polinameisak8899]

Thank you Lucy, we missed you!

[@kaylastarr3822]

So happy to see another video from you and such a wonderful one too. Glad you're feeling better. Happy Birthday! I'd love to see a video about those Victorian magazines.

[@LiteraryKnitterary]

Oh my gosh the brambly hedge books! I haven’t thought about those in forever but I loved them as a kid!

[@MilenaReads]

Ah, middlegrade is perfect when you’re not feeling the best. I hope you feel well again soon 💜 Pages and Co is a great middlegrade series about books ✨

[@helenadelapena8678]

i’m glad you’re back!!! you inspire me to read ❤️

[@lindaharrison3240]

There you are! Welcome back! I have missed you. I’m sorry to hear you were sick. I thought you were so busy with uni that you didn’t have time to make videos. I’m glad you’re back and I hope you continue on the mend!

[@fleurmeneve5780]

Welcome back Lucy, and happy birthday 🥰

[@LizziebelleXOX]

Missed you Lucy and missed your lovely videos. Good to see you back 💕💕

[@Glock_4717]

So happy to see you back!💜

[@saranorman3411]

I just love your videos! You have such great recommendations and I love your reviews as well! I would love to see a video about the Edwardian stuff you've been learning about. ❤❤

[@leslecturesdemarie7994]

Same kind of lockdown here in France. Welcome back i've missed you! ❤ so far ive read 80 books this year.

[@WhitneyDahlin]

So glad you're feeling better!

[@jesslouise6849]

Missed your videos so incredibly much! 💗

[@gawisipeleslie8055]

Welcome back Lucy! I love your channel and missed your posts while you were gone. I hope you’re doing ok now. And belated birthday wishes! Greetings from the west of Ireland! Xx

[@ellie8779]

I'm new! I've found so many glorious classics I'm dying to read now because of you!!! Thanks!

[@marlaluna1926]

Hello Lucy, your videos are so so inspiring. Your personality has this uniqueness that brings hoy and this guarantee of quality-literature. Saludos from México City.

[@marlaluna1926]

Brings 'joy', phone-typo.

[@racheldemain1940]

Had wondered where you were. Be kind to yourself and read easy books. ❤️❤️

[@izabelbrekilien9658]

First, happy belated birthday ! Then oh yes, I'd love for you to make a video on those Edwardian papers :) I'm currently reading Pachinko by Min Jin Lee and The secret diaries of Charlotte Brontë by Syrie James - I'm on a Brontë rampage ! I'll be re-reading Jane Eyre for the 10th time next month and taking all my time getting there, savouring it.

[@aimeebower1080]

It`s so great to see you back! I hope you are safe and doing well! I`ve been reading Laura Wood`s new book and it has become one of my favourites of the year! If you like Robin Stevens and Katherine Woodfine, I reccomend Emma Carroll, her books gave me a similar, cosy vibe!

[@grahamhudson9995]

Hi lucy I think i speak on behalf of everyone when I say we’ve all missed your videos... I’m currently reading The tenant of wildfell hall by Anna Bronte ( My first of any of the Bronte sisters work) I am in absolutely in love with the book and her writing style.... I can’t see how either of her sisters are going to top her but I’m looking forward to finding out.

[@subtlefire7256]

Happy belated birthday and welcome back! I really relate to what you said about reading classics vs. comfort reads this year. I'm currently reading Jude the Obscure and enjoying it, but it's going very slowly because I'm reading a lot of cozy/comforting things on the side. I hope uni is going well, and don't stress yourself about filming, your health and comfort come first! Also I would love to hear more about those Edwardian magazines, that sounds fun. 😄

[@juliaisagoodwitch]

Those two mystery series sounds very interesting. I’m currently reading The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, The Skin We’re In by Desmond Cole and A Tale of Witchcraft by Chris Colfer. 😀

[@tom7979]

At the moment I’m reading The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. I started it a few weeks ago but I put it down because I was stressed at the time and couldn’t really focus on the writing, even though I was enjoying it. I read a book which is now one of my top 10 novels of all time which is Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. I can’t put into words how much I adored this book and I can’t wait to delve into more Woolf. And yesterday I finished The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy which I utterly adored. It was so beautiful and I loved the characters. Wishing you the best

[@johnsaxongitno4life588]

Happy 😃 birthday 🎂 for last week and good luck with your writing ✍️ I hope that it goes well for you xxxx

[@lexysartworld]

Wow 60 books?! 😱 I've only read 5 but I'm treating it like its not a marathon and just reading for fun. 😊 So it has been good so far.

[@maddyldr]

Aw we missed you Lucy😊 hope you're doing well ✨

[@englishwithakbar9443]

I just finished reading a short story of Edgar Allan Poe WILLAIM WILSON and its amazing when you read it, it's like you find your self indulge in that picture what he portrays. I am working on its audiobook in my channel with text.

[@cherrylady1999]

Welcome back Lucy! Missed your videos so much 💕💕

[@ANASantos519]

I buy Penguin editions because of you. 😅 i try read as much i can in english. 🤓 Love from Portugal 😙🇵🇹

[@quinnkinsella2762]

Happy Birthday a little late! I’m currently reading Emma and Twilight. The quintessential romances. 😂

[@johnsaxongitno4life588]

Welcome back stranger glad to see you are back looking forward to seeing more of you over the next few videos please stay safe love 💖 John from Australia xxx

[@femsfables]

i missed your videos so much, they always make me so excited to read! i’m currently preparing myself for a 24 hour readathon i’m doing tonight (it’s my first time doing something like that haha) and i will be reading a book from the outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, they always make me so happy! 🤗

[@weirdalski3352]

Thank you for filming this, have added your recommendations to my TBR list, love your recommendations when I'm stuck in a reading rut! You also remind me of Sophie Turner ☺️

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

welcome back, hope you're feeling better.

[@englishwithakbar9443]

Welcome back Miss Lucy. really missed ya. hope you r doing well out there.

[@plskie9527]

Have you ever read Maurice, by E.M Forster, if going with the Edwardian era.

[@ButOneThingIsNeedful]

Just wanted to send out to you love, prayers, and every kind wish.

[@AbiofPellinor]

I hope you're feeling better

[@SophiaClef]

Welcome back!

[@dianewalker9154]

We get Victorian videos a lot. Please do an Edwardian video for us. I’m sure it will be very interesting.

[@mohankashyap3534]

👍🏻

[@Noorali1]

Sooooo missed you