every classic I read in 2023

[@Praire22]

I hope Jennifer’s channel remains up. In her honor and memory I am going to rewatch all of them (with tears flowing of course). RIP wonderful lady❤️

[@Tim_Nelmes]

I agree… I hope her channel stays up as well

[@disakland4714]

I hope so too.

[@barbarahelgaker390]

Yes I want to rewatch her classics and remember a wonderfully inspiring woman

[@BJPDesigns]

Im so sorry to hear the sad news about Jennifer. I also hope her channel can stay up so we can watch her videos and learn from her wise knowledge of books.

[@marianapgar4409]

I re-watched her videos all the time. I sincerely hope they will remain available.

[@brianhaas1154]

Jennifer belongs in the Booktube Hall of Fame. May she Rest in Peace. Going to miss all of her brutally honest reviews, and scathing criticisms.

[@lilliedoubleyou3865]

So well said! I like that her brutal honesty and scathing criticism still had so much class and intellectual know-how

[@AeroPortJoga]

Dear Jennifer...I can't believe it... You will be greatly missed! Rest In Peace Jennifer.

[@marianapgar4409]

I'm going to miss her always.

[@lyndatrower3515]

I only found out today that this wonderful person had passed away, and I only just subscribed to her channel. So sad that the world has lost this amazing person.

[@Pestopasta_]

Rest in Peace, such a beautiful soul. Her passion for history, classics and literature was immeasurable. If I wanted to read a book I would always look on Jen’s channel for her opinion. I still can’t believe it, I want to read all her favs in her honour.

[@CarolAttrux]

Rest in peace, Jennifer. You were such a gift! 😔😢📚

[@matthewgordonpettipas6773]

Its so sad hearing her talk about the books she wanted to read later this year and then you know she passed away not long afterwards. RIP Jennifer.

[@athousandgreatbooks]

I discovered her day before yesterday, subscribed. And today I find that she's already passed away. Rest in peace, Jennifer.

[@capturedbyannamarie]

I can’t watch this without crying. 😢 ❤Rip! The fact that she said she read Brothers K as her last bookish bucket list book. 😭

[@BookLover19]

💔😢

[@LilaCerullos]

God i was watching this video in the morning without knowing she passed! I'm so shocked, she was one of my favorite booktubers, hearing this just makes so deeply sad, i don't even know what else to say except that she will always be special for all of us, my deepest condolences to her family, i hope she rest in peace, our sweet Jennifer ❤🕊

[@BookLover19]

I am watching this and my tears are flowing. Rest in eternal peace, beautiful Jennifer 💔

[@karenyates6797]

May you RIP, Dear Jenny! I hope all of Jenny's videos stay posted, so we can watch them and continue to learn and to be enlightened by her wisdom, her humor ("Y'all!) and her love for books! Condolences to her mother and all who knew her personally.

[@kevinshooter2537]

So sad, I discovered her channel just before Xmas. I loved her take on Wilkie Collins, he’s a favourite of mine. Rest in Peace Jennifer, you certainly touched many people 😢

[@robincapuano8216]

I read Woman in White because of Jenny. Loved it.

[@MothGirl007]

@@robincapuano8216 Same, and I am a total Wilkie Collins fan now.

[@LittleKikuyu]

I‘m so sad to have discovered this channel only now. What a lovely lady, great video! RIP 🥺

[@Movingthebookmark]

Jennifer, this is still so hard to comprehend. You will be so so so missed. You really were just so impressive as a person.

[@limwenredleaf]

omg, i heard what happened. rest in peace, jennifer. we love you

[@pinecone1011]

Exo. 20

[@KAZHE63]

You will be so very missed! I learned so much from you, Jennifer! RIP

[@58angieb]

Stunned! So sad. Jennifer's literary analysis videos of the Classics were of the highest quality, articulate, & all delivered with a warmth of 'down-to-earth' intelligence .

[@marys32333]

Jen is one of my favorites. She is so down to earth. Her wide variety of reading was a great source of information and recommendations. I am so sorry for our loss, especially for her family and close friends.

[@Itsbaberuthless_]

Everytime Jen goes “….ya’ll….” you know you’re about to here the harsh truth in the nicest way. It kills me every time.

[@philip790518]

Kills me everytime she starts with “I know… I know…” before saying something she knows is going to be controversial

[@myratogonon]

😂😂

[@Isabela-Thomas]

🎯💯😂😂😂😂😂

[@ddallons63]

Jennifer, love you girl! Rest in peace my friend ❤😢

[@christinafielder3641]

I never had the opportunity to connect with Jennifer, but I got a lot of pleasure from her literary commentary. Heartfelt condolences to her family & friends from Canada.

[@loukasg.1217]

So sad to hear of your passing...may you rest in eternal peace beautiful jennifer...😔❤️

[@JamiBond009]

Will miss you Jennifer. I was so looking forward to 2024 reading with you. 🤍

[@blane1814]

Me too 🤧🤧🤧 I can not believe it.

[@LizziebelleXOX]

So devastated, can’t believe it 💔we will miss you Jennifer

[@blane1814]

@@LizziebelleXOX I know. I send you a hug as a fan and viewer of Jennifer I know she was special to you too🎀🙆🏼‍♀️🌷

[@marianapgar4409]

There is a huge hole in my heart now.

[@LizziebelleXOX]

@@blane1814 same to you my friend 🩷🌷

[@biskit96]

Jenny’s videos are the ones I rewatch all the time. I’m so glad she has been gaining more subscribers posthumously.

[@eveningprimrose3088]

A Tale of Two Cities has lived in my head rent-free for many months. One of my all-time favorites.

[@Fortheloveofclassics]

Such an inspiring and insightful human. RIP

[@disamariah]

😢am in shock am sorry for our loss of beautiful Jennifer she will be missed í cried knowing that she passed away This day she posted This video its chilling and sad 😢❤ Rest in Peace Jen hope you r in a bookish Heaven my deepest Condolences to Pam her mom and family n friends❤

[@melissahouse1296]

Miss U Jenny, so much ❤

[@mimishimaineko1173]

Yesterday was your birthday--blessings, Jenny!💟

[@maryfilippou6667]

I loved her current expressions and insights and her just- right lovely clothes. She was so gifted. She really put herself out for us and So well-spoken and Fluent! First great person to pass this year

[@fiberartsyreads]

Loved this! Will miss hearing you talk about classics. ❤❤

[@pennamagica8662]

I didn't know her as well as some of you, but I won't forget her. Thank you for the wonderful recommendations, Jenny❤

[@brooke5258]

Damn. She passed the same day? Life is so short. You never know. Rest well ❤

[@teakara]

I really don’t understand what happened to her, she looks so good and healthy here😢

[@scot2622]

im really sad

[@tripp8833]

Life is short… for all of us really

[@biskit96]

That’s what I am thinking. 😢

[@melissarebecca8]

I just discovered Jennifer and absolutely love her! I'm so sad that she's passed. I'm going to try to watch all her videos.

[@DanielsBibliophagy]

Jennifer was a big influence in getting me back into reading as much as I now do. This is incredibly sad.

[@mandyc1280]

Goodness, you are already so missed. I will be rewatching all her wonderful videos.

[@cecethompson914]

I wonder if Jennifer’s mother watches these videos when she’s missing her daughter. I didn’t ever know Jennifer other than KZbin, but I frequently rewatch her videos to be soothed by her amazingness. I would loved to have been her friend in real life.

[@nancyegee2804]

I’ll miss your smart book reviews and your sweet presence.

[@daviddandrea6491]

What a shock! I so enjoyed her channel and the frank intelligent discussion she gave us on this channel. My sincerest condolences to her family and friends. A great loss for us all.

[@ellievanderheide1926]

I loved how connected she was with the seasons also in the books she read. Her Autumn, Halloween, Christmas decorations. And her love for Dante. It is because of Jennifer i read Dante. I hope Virgil shows her the best places to visit in heaven.

[@robincapuano8216]

Happy New Year and thanks so much for your content!

[@deblawrence8341]

Loved this video and list of books! Regarding Dostoyevsky, I found his "The House of the Dead" really interesting and moving. The time he spent in the prison hospital still stays with me and I read this book a couple of years ago. Happy reading in 2024!

[@RuEd294]

Was waiting for this video!!!

[@robincapuano8216]

I feel like this about all Jennifer's videos!

[@asher_oak]

I also tackled Plutarch this year. I had the Oxford World Classics already but wanted a copy that had the Greek and Roman lives mirrored as Plutarch had intended, so I bought a copy of those (I think by Vintage?). As it turned out, I much preferred the translations in the Oxfords, haha. Can’t win ‘em all. There’s a great podcast called The Plutarch Project that I found helpful and illuminating as someone who didn’t study the classics in school. I’m looking forward to reading Suetonius this year thanks to a Rec from one of your older videos.

[@nostromo7854]

This video was uploaded the day she died. Still can't wrap my head around this. RIP Beautiful Girl.

[@LeaReads]

The plot construction Brothers Karamazov is actually one of my favorite aspects. The whole novel I thought FOR SURE it was a certain brother so when the reveal happened (and he wasn’t guilty), I can seriously say it changed my life. It made me take such a look at myself and how I judge and value things it’s stuck with me even after two years of reading it. I really wish you read the McDuff because the passages were so beautiful. I just haven’t gotten along with Constance 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@gregorykay2472]

You couldn’t have summed up A Tale of Two Cities Better. As I was reading it, I thought okay this is pretty good book but the way it’s going I’m only going to give this a 3 or 4 stars. Then you get that ending, the genuine best ending I’ve ever read to a book. It hit me so hard, like nothing I’ve ever experienced from a book before and it forced me to give the book 5 stars. Even though I don’t usually think a good ending is enough to redeem a book. It was just that good I couldn’t not give it 5 stars and it’s now one of my favourite books.

[@Tolstoy111]

R.I.P. You passed away the same day you posted this.

[@teakara]

😢😢

[@BookLover19]

💔😢

[@stephenn3727]

Thank you Jennifer!

[@kristineredmond5196]

I bought used copies of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers K., and The Idiot this year. I'm having a hard time finishing C and P, and now I'm really scared for the others.😅 I was gifted The Bell Jar at Christmas, and I'm making A Tale of Two Cities a priority reading this year. Thanks for another great video!

[@bethflynn5342]

What happened? She looks perfect here. Was it an accident?

[@philip790518]

Happy New Year~! I have the exact opposite views on Dostoevsky (so far). I love Brothers K, C&P and Notes from Underground, and stopped reading The Idiot at the halfway point and couldn’t force myself through it any further!

[@Dinadoesyoga]

Thank you for sharing! The Tartar Steppe sounds like exactly my kind of read. ❤ Have you read Wilkie's The Haunted Hotel? It doesn't get any worse than that. 😅 Totally agree about Ethan Frome. The prose, the setting, and pacing was just beautiful. Couldn't stand any of those characters and they could have all just been buried in an avalanche for all I cared. 😂

[@Barklord]

Rest in Peace

[@dansarkozi]

Happy New Year 🥳

[@joyceredman2136]

I only read eleven classics (The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins, the Picture of Dorian Gray, The Goblin Market, were the only ones I really enjoyed) this past year, so you beat me! One Halloween night, I went to a church to watch the original Phantom of the Opera silent movie listening to a church organist playing accompaniment to the movie like they did in old movie theaters. I did not realize that in the silent movie, the Phantom played an organ! It was a dark and stormy night too! It was truly a special experience. I plan to read the following classics in 2024-Treasure Island (Illustrated) by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Stranger by Albert Camus, An Illustrated Kalevala (myths and legends from Finland which influenced Tolkein to write the Lord of the Rings) Retold by Kirsti Makinen, and The Waves by Virginia Woolf. I have some large history books to read and large fiction/nonfiction books too so I don't know if I will read more classics than those. Plus some mysteries as well. I really loved A Christmas Party by Georgette Heyer-what a surprise it was. The only thing I read by Edith Wharton was a short story called Roman Fever and that was a really good story. One day I am going to read the Custom of the Country but not in 2024.

[@maryfilippou6667]

You were so articulate and fluent. Life goes fast. Glad yours was full and fulfilling. I enjoyed your videos very much. You were truly gifted. Thanks for emphasizing your interest in great Mary Shelley. Your sense of style will be missed. I looked forward to your latest attire. And you had a fine voice for these videos.

[@Isabela-Thomas]

Love ❤️ the background, so pretty

[@AmalijaKomar]

Last year I started to read some plays by Euripidus and planning to continue with them in 2024. Love him for a long time, since I read Medea. I had a different opinions about Dostoevsky in different times. Now, he is an absolute genius for me. And I am almost 50, not religious at all.

[@jackiesliterarycorner]

I read a handful of short stories throughout the year. I read 3 from Edith Wharton: The Lady's Maids Bell, The Eyes, and The Afterward, but they were a disappointment as ghost stories. I read The Masque of the Red Death by Poe that I enjoyed more as a short story. I also some read some short stories from Oscar Wilde: The Model Millionaire, The Portrait of Mr. W.H, and Lord Arthur Savile Crime. The classic novels I have read are The Turn of the Screw, Anna Karenina, The Time Machine, Around the World in 80 Days, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, The Hobbit, The Merchant of Venice, Mansfield Park, Mysteries of Udolpho, Psycho, Time and Again, Rosemary's Baby, The Idiot, and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes. My favorites were The Idiot, Anna Karenina, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, Psycho, The Masque of the Red Death, Anne of Green Gables, The Hobbit, Mansfield Park, Around the World in 80 Days, and The Secret Garden

[@TheNutmegStitcher]

I need to re-read Ethan Frome. I read it when very young, a teen (I'm 55), and the ending shocked and traumatized me a bit. Time to see if my much older and experienced perspective can make any sense of that terrible decision. I love your honest reviews.

[@blane1814]

Her last video:(

[@BookLover19]

💔

[@blane1814]

@@BookLover19 I can’t believe it. I’m floored. When she said if there are 100 people who love a tail of two cities I’m one of them. And if there is none is because I’m dead. I shall read that book in her honor.

[@BookLover19]

@@blane1814 I picked up so many classics that I wouldn’t have considered reading because of her - Moby Dick, The Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote. And I learned so much about ancient classics from her and bought The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid. I will think of her when I read them 😔

[@blane1814]

@@BookLover19 I’m reading the tail of two city’s in her honor this month 🤧

[@BookLover19]

@@blane1814 It’s on my TBR this year too and I will think of Jennifer when I read it. I hope I love it as much as she did 😔

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

Petrarch and Dante drank from the same waters. Brava

[@Isabela-Thomas]

🎯💯 reading it in its original language is the way to go.

[@Justine_S]

Ethan Frome is pretty bleak. A lot of people hate that book! Definitely recommend trying The Age of Innocence or The House of Mirth.

[@JamesWorld3]

What happened to her she looks so vibrant and healthy it must have been an accident

[@biskit96]

Apparently she passed away in her sleep and her mother found her in the morning

[@JHS447]

I gave up on The Brothers Karamazov a few months ago for precisely the reason you stated-i’m not nearly interested enough (read: not interested at all) in religion. You also mentioned Wilkie Collins’ “big four.” I LOVED The Woman in White, which I read many years ago. What would you recommend for my next Wilkie Collins read? Thanks. Interesting and fun content.

[@apollonia6656]

The books are pristine and they were read ? What is the secret of keeping paperbacks as new ? Most of mine get easily "used" 😅 Do tell us,please.😊 WOW ! Btw: What do you think of "Poor Miss Finch" ? I love Wilkie Collins but this book annoyed me....I couldn't empathize with a single character, not even little Jinz😕

[@Buttercup-vw2zo]

I just found this Channel 2 days ago and watched 5 videos so far. Some people say Jennifer DIED??? Oh No .What happened??

[@Ygnez]

My relationship with Dostoevsky’s work is mixed as well. My favorite is easily The Idiot as well. I especially like it when characters go in some form of an angry fever dream berskerk nihilistic mode. No other writer can get the feeling over to me. I also liked the Gambler. For the rest I have not yet found a work from him that worked that well for me.

[@mtnshelby7059]

I loved Justified Sinner but it is not for every reader, that's for darn sure. I like when reviewers acknowledge this. I absolutely cannot manage the ancient Greeks, for example, but understand why others find such richness. Give me the 18th and 19th century now and forever. 😂

[@mtnshelby7059]

Rewatching this video and seeing my comment the first time I watched. 😢😢😢😢

[@shashawk]

❤

[@lisamar707]

What happened?

[@Tolstoy111]

She passed away

[@badboybootz8]

New sub. Cool channel 😎

[@violetmoonofthenorth]

🥹💖✨ RIP XX

[@eveningprimrose3088]

I was forced to read Ethan Frome in high school. Almost ruined my love of reading.

[@Tolstoy111]

Why? It’s so good

[@mlicciardello7884]

RIP

[@MothGirl007]

💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

[@clairebott1539]

I’m so annoyed and my heart is gutted. Why why why did you not give a spoiler alert for The Brothers Karamazov 😢😢😢😞😞😞

[@laura0104]

Jennifer passed away recently, you may want to delete this comment.

[@magicivy]

You should read the most recent comments and delete this immediately.

[@LittleKikuyu]

Why? I don’t understand.

[@LittleKikuyu]

Oh, and btw there wasn’t any actual spoiler on the murder plot line. No worries!

[@user-iv1in2bd2w]

Rest In Peace