#GothLitNovember

[@nicolanickolls3347]

Thank you so much for these videos, there's no end to your talents! Yes please vampire books ❤

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Aww thank you 🖤

[@tanyaabel1543]

Can’t wait to find out more about Fang February, not sure how much I will be able to participate, but will be watching all your videos ❤

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Aww Tanya thank you ❤️❤️

[@SecondThoughtsAboutTheMission]

Thank you so much, Candy ❤ Your #GothlitNovember videos have meant so much to me, and I’m so glad Bailey and I decided to put this together. Interestingly, I was on the phone with a friend recently, and we were talking books. She told me Daphne Du Maurier based Rebecca on her own experiences with jealousy and insecurity, and that the writing of the book was cathartic and maybe sort of an exorcism. Wuthering Heights is my all time favorite gothic works, just one of my all around favorites, period. And yes, I’m not ashamed to admit, we love Heathcliff in this house 😂 We jokingly call one another Heathcliff, and I’ve had a t shirt for years which reads ‘Heathcliff it’s me, Cathy’ (Kate Bush) 😂❤ I’m so excited for your future reading plans! My daughter and I are still reading gothic works and plan to do so throughout the holiday season. I hope to film soon, but we’ve experienced something horrible in our family recently, which I can’t talk about in my vids. Anyway, oddly enough, gothic literature is helping me get through things. And I think it makes sense. Watching your videos has brought light into my days too, so thank you again Candy ❤❤❤

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Aww Rachel the thanks are all mine back at you. I’m so sorry you are having a rough time atm and I’m glad my videos are at least a small distraction. Sending you all the love in the world. 🖤🖤🖤(black hearts/ heathcliff style!🖤)

[@Ejcfarley]

Loved this for Nov. 🥰 it was a treat - and still is! I’m loving reading Wuthering Heights atmo ❤❤❤

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Aww thank you Emily 🖤

[@emmajade7434]

I'm so glad that you are going to deep dive into literature it will certainly make the transition of having an empty nest way less noticeable .I always love your enthusiasm...........now I feel like reading Wuthering Heights ....... I can not remember the last time I read a novel.I have never read a Gothic novel. You must be a fast reader you seem to have got through heaps of books.I start lots of books but only read a few pages maybe a couple of chapters ,then I get really bored and rarely finish them 😦Really enjoying your book videos 😘

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Emma I can’t wait to read all I’ve got planned. Thank you for watching ❤️

[@KawaiiKoala197]

I've really enjoyed these videos Gothic literature is my favorite. I'm also looking forward to your fairytale read along I have a ridiculous amount of fairytale retellings.

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Ooo how exciting you can join in hopefully in January ❤️

[@irenefiggess1852]

Really enjoyed your video Candy, it has reminded me that I tried to read Dracula a while back but it really spooked me so much and I couldn't continue; now I think I will give it another try if you also read it and share your thoughts and feelings and yes; maybe it gets easier with age....hopefully! ♥

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Irene I hope I will be ok reading it I just found it thrifting ❤️

[@lizzieh5284]

Hi Candy. I love Jane Eyre. One of my all-time favourites. So glad you enjoyed The Ghost Woods that I recommended. I loved it. Hamlet is also my favourite Shajespeare play. ❤❤😊

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Lizzie it was great thank you so much for the recommendation ❤️

[@singingmoon9022]

Fang February I love it! I’ll certainly be joining in❤

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Yay that’s awesome 🖤

[@SunshineDawn7]

So happy you enjoyed your reading so much and it is giving you something to do when the kiddos are away also 🥰Thank you for sharing and letting us know what the books are about and what you thought of them. I haven't had much time for reading lately. I have been spending most of my free time,which isn't much, talking with my little Grandaughter. She will be a year next month. Can't wait to get back up north to see her again. She says Nanny and my son tells me i am "Nanny in the box lol" She likes to play keep away with the phone and sits on me and hides me under the couch to keep me to herself. She brings me so much Joy 😂😂 I really do want to read Wuthering Heights and some others you have found, they sound so good and mysterious🤗🤗Much Love my Friend and Enjoy! 🥰🥰❤❤🙏🏻🙏🏻☮☮

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Thank you sunshine dawn. Your time sounds amazingly well spent regardless of reading or not. Those are memories made that mean everything. Yes the literature studies are my first project I’m putting in place. I realised I really needed sone things happening I’m looking forward to as the kids leave as it’s no small thing to go through and I realised I would be in big trouble if I didn’t get a plan together. So it’s a life reclaim and life raft project in a way ❤️❤️❤️

[@SunshineDawn7]

@@CandySoulAndSoil They are precious memories. I can't even tell you how much it means to me. I am so glad you are figuring out what you want to do when the kids start making lives of their own. It is one of the hardest things a Momma can go through that is a natural part of being a Mom but i know you got this and like i have said before, they will always be in your Heart and you will always be in theirs.You are such a Great Mom and they love you so much! You have sacrificed so much to be their for them and they will never forget all you have done for them. Now is your time to do what makes you Happy 😊 😊 You are so Smart thinking ahead. Big hugs Momma Bear 🐻🤗🤗🥰🥰💖💖🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Thank you my beautiful friend ❤️❤️

[@rachellangella8595]

Jane Eyre has been one of my top three favorite books since I was thirteen (I'm 55 now). It's been a while since I've reread it, though, so I think I'll put it at the top of my TBR list and enjoy cozying up with an old friend this holiday season.

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Rachelle we are almost the same age I’m. 56. Isn’t ger character just wonderful ❤️

[@papermoontarot4219]

I wonder if the less likeable wife in Rebecca is some kind of comment on the fact that society prefers demure women to firebrands and labels strong women as evil, but in this book the strong woman (ghost) is a much more interesting character. DuMaurier herself was rather a tough woman. Not having read the book, squashing the mushroom sounds like the woods encroaching on the house as well as crushing life reminiscent of getting rid of the babies. I'm reading Woman in Black now and enjoying it--I hear the movie is very good, too. I love the introductory story of him with his family telling ghost stories, reminding me of the traveller's encounter with Kathy's ghost in Wuthering Heights introducing the story. What I love about Gothic is it creates atmosphere and lets your own imagination fill in the blanks. Way too much babbling for a comment, but its a weak substitute for sitting down with you and chatting about these lovely books. (And yes, please, no dating Heathcliffs....!). 👻👻👻 I just sent you Tenant of Wildfell Hall for a happy Christmas!

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Aww Nancy you sent me a book oh my goodness and it’s one I’ve wanted to find and havnt! Oh my, thank you so much!!!!! I would love if you lived up the rd and we could have a regular coffee meet up to discuss books. I didn’t like the second wife in Rebecca I think because she reminded me of things I don’t like in myself. Things that got me in really tough places in life like they led her to as well. That boundary-less people pleaser with no voice. I’m not her now but I was and it made me so frustrated to watch play out in the book. I wanted to climb into the pages and shake her. It also made me dislike him so much too. It was a fly on the wall self help book for me to remind myself to have a voice. Like I said these books bring in life lessons and reflections you may not be expecting from fiction. It’s been the most amazing month of reading and thank you so much for all your comments keeping me company…. Never too many words for a comment I appreciate every one of those words so much ❤️

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

It just arrived. Thank you so much Nancy ❤️

[@papermoontarot4219]

@@CandySoulAndSoil You're very welcome! Happy Christmas to you and yours 🎄🎄🎄

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Will you miss your rock?

[@ShaunaBearDrums]

Amen to the want for passionate love ⬅️ Guilty Sagittarian 😂

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

lol everybody who has ever said to me they love heath cliff I check and they are always Sagittarius😂❤️

[@aspasiarising4732]

Love hearing the Goths you read. It inspires me to dig into the genre more. I too read "Wuthering Heights" oh so many years ago and probably should reread that. I already put "Ghost Woods" on my wish list. I loved "The Woman in Black." Have you ever seen the movie with Daniel Radcliffe? It's superb. Thanks, Candy. Oh btw, I sent you a birthday email back in November, hope you had a wonderful bday!

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Beth did you I’ll go look I’m so bad at looking at my emails. Post and emails I struggle with ❤️

[@jinxminx55]

oh, when you said you hadn't gotten to the woman in white it made me remember something - I read that, and dickens' bleak house, to read lynn shepherd's the solitary house, which sort of knits those two books together. that might be a perfect contemporary read for you. and she also wrote murder at mansfield park, which I also read but I don't know that I realized they have the same protagonist until I just now looked them up, I read them some years apart. I am really stuck in to finishing my TBR but I might just read dracula and lucy undying with you in february - I've never read dracula and I feel as though I should.

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Ooo yes great recommendations thank you and yes read Dracula and Lucy undying with me in February they are possibly going to be my first 2 reads

[@LouValcourt]

Jane Eyre is an all time favourite of mine too. This year I started to get into romantasy, we will see how it goes I’m like you in that literature, art and music are really important to me. Before I did my degree in art, I studied literature and history.

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

@@LouValcourt Lou we are so similar before my art degree I studied art English lit and geography though I still look back and wonder why I didn’t choose history in the humanities (teacher preference) and I studied music out of school ❤️

[@roxieblue9150]

I really enjoyed how you discuss Gothic lit, particularly the lessons of each. I’m so glad this got you back into your love of literature. Lucy Undying is on my TBR so I may join you in February to read that. How long do you keep books in the freezer to disinfect?

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

I'm so glad you enjoyed the video thank you. The books I leave in the freezer for at least 3 days to make sure. It kills off anything. I also do the same with flour and pasta and rice. Having once bought a bag of flour full of weevils that got into my cupboard I’m obsessed now with freezing anything that might have the possibility of anything insect like and invisible brewing in it. It was a horror I can’t face again. Scarier than any ghost story 🖤

[@NicoleACottageWitch]

Jane Eyre is an all-time favourite. I reread it for goth lit November last year. 💜🖤It’s funny how interpretations change over time. I adored Wuthering Heights the first time I read it and I still absolutely love it, but I view it so differently at 39 than I did at 21!

[@NicoleACottageWitch]

And I loved Sue Chaplin’s book on gothic literature! It’s delightful.

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

@@NicoleACottageWitch it’s amazing isn’t it withering heights felt like a different book this read. I’m really excited to read the sue Chaplin book. Thank you so much for watching 🖤

[@houseofhag]

If you liked Jane Eyre, I think you would like Dragonwyck by Anya Seaton - the film with Vincent Price is pretty good too! I loved following your Gothlit month, thanks Candy 🙏✨

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Oo great I’ll look into that and thank you for watching ❤️

[@WoodspringWillow]

I would definitely recommend Jamaica Inn which is my second favourite book after Wuthering Heights also Frenchman’s Creek is another brilliant Daphne de Maurier book xx

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

I look for it every time I go thrifting ❤️

[@Ejcfarley]

There is a play about the Brontë sisters called Brontë by Polly Teale… I studied that at uni and also saw a production of it in London at the time and it’s well worth a read because it gives more context to their writing ❤ this video is actually made me want to go back and reread that as well Xx

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Oh wow I didn’t know that thank you Emily I will check it out ❤️

[@foxwithabook445]

Love your book videos! (All your videos are amazing)

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Thank you so much!☺️

[@acolourist1798]

Loved the books Candy, so I agree rereading and seeing something different feels good. ❤ I have done a gift I would love to send you if you would allow me to do so.

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

It’s such a reflection on who we are and how we’ve changed i think reading and rereading fiction. Oh my thank you. You can email me if you like that’s so kind. Myemail is in my about ❤️

[@Tina-wi7we]

I love Jane, but the guy was annoyingly manipulative. Mrs. Winters was young and dumb! And her guy was clueless, but I liked the surprise in Rebecca better. And the revelation of his true feelings... I liked Rebecca better overall, but it has been a long time since I've read them. Love this series, Candy! And your thoughts. Jotting down your books 💙✨

[@lizzieh5284]

My degree is in English Literature with Theology. It was one of the best things I ever did. ❤😊

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Tina Rebecca is a great book isn’t it. Thank you so much for watching ❤️

[@Tina-wi7we]

@@CandySoulAndSoil yes and I love Dickens. He's really highlighted some issues that needed to be looked at in society. He's so so good. Jane Austen is my comfort reading. She is so witty. So I hope you can fit her in somewhere 💕And wuthering heights is just so romantic, but too much tragedy. Do I love it anyway? Yes I do 😂🤣😂🤣

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

All are in my plans to read yes ❤️

[@acolourist1798]

Candy I have emailed you, just worried it's not arrived. If it has and it's time constraints just ignore this. ❤

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Oh I’m so sorry I missed it. Just replied now ❤️❤️❤️