reading CLASSICS for a week to channel my inner RORY GILMORE 📚🍂

[@jaimefok]

what’s your favourite classic? 💕

[@madelynnfisher300]

A Separate Peace!

[@jaimefok]

@ honestly have not heard of that one!

[@madelynnfisher300]

@@jaimefok It was so good. And nice and short too!

[@AnnikaMin]

David Copperfield by Dickens ❤

[@sheillasouza6111]

White nights by Dostoievski 😍 I recommend you to read

[@melslittlebooknook]

That edition of Anna Karenina is beautiful

[@jaimefok]

RIGHT? Stunning!

[@ariana.bookowl]

Russian Lit when you don't usually read classics!?!? Sooo brave. I read classics often and I have not been able to bring myself to touch Russian Lit just yet, Little Women is my all time favorite book. I feel like that is such an easy classic to read. I also didn't like Pride and Prejudice, but Emma is better if you want to try more Austen. It's also helpful for me to listen to the audio books while following along in the book when I read classics.

[@jaimefok]

@@ariana.bookowl I have little women on my TBR as well! Will remember about Emma if I decide to give Austen another try, thank you!!

[@hannahclairereads7835]

My favorite classics are Jane eyre, the picture of Dorian grey, and the bell jar.

[@jaimefok]

@@hannahclairereads7835 ooh I have the bell jar as well!

[@irenamcg]

Anna Karenina is my favourite book we read in high school ❤ I'm so happy when people like it.

[@jaimefok]

@@irenamcg omg I loved it!

[@Faithful_Fork]

Jamie you are so brave for literally reading classics. I commend you ❤❤❤

[@jaimefok]

@@Faithful_Fork I’ve been putting it off 😂

[@shannx7512]

I too would have felt overwhelmed jumping into reading Anna Karenina with it being an 800 PAGE classic 🤣😅. But seeing your review of it and some of the pages you showed, I added a copy of it to my book wishlist on Amazon 😂😊

[@jaimefok]

@@shannx7512 it was soooooo good!

[@Lillyjoy]

🎉🎉 going from such a short classic to an 800 page one omg I could not 😂 I have some classics on my physical tbr such as Crime & Punishment and Alice in Wonderland but I just never reach for them! I want to though

[@jaimefok]

@@Lillyjoy warmed up for the big one 😂

[@jasminejanneth6857]

I love Alice in wonderland! It feels very magical and made me appreciate all the content that has been inspired from that

[@myrsini.1208]

One of my favourite classics is The Cather in the Rye- J. D. Salinger, also you just made me want to read Anna Karenina. I 've had it in my bookcase for a long time

[@jaimefok]

Oooh yes, highly recommend!

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I love that copy of the great gatsby 🥹

[@jaimefok]

@@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm it’s so pretty!

[@galaxyj8556]

I read the secret garden this year my very first classic and loved it. I think it is my best classic out of others i read after. Its children classic and i loved it. It is mundane yet soo beautiful😊. This book is a great representation of love for nature and kids in this one sooo cute 🥰.

[@jaimefok]

@@galaxyj8556 omg yes!!!

[@stuartgriffin1001]

My favorite classics are many of the stories of H.P. Lovecraft which I am currently reading for the 4th time, Dracula by Bram Stoker which I read 3 times, and War of the Worlds which I read 3 times

[@jaimefok]

@@stuartgriffin1001 Amazing!

[@NadiaAbdulrahman-]

Her reaction to Anna Karenina reminds me of Carolyn Marie Reads SO MUCH. Haha.

[@jaimefok]

@@NadiaAbdulrahman- ooh really?? I’ll have to look that up 😂

[@jasminejanneth6857]

Ooo I wanna read Anna Karenina now. As always, love your videos 💖

[@jaimefok]

YAY do ittttt 💕

[@sheillasouza6111]

My favorite character in this book was indeed Lievin 🤌🏽😍

[@jaimefok]

@@sheillasouza6111 YES!

[@lalaliacat9067]

I'm so glad you liked Anna Karenina, everyone I talk to hates it! And, I was also obsessed with Levin throughout my read, there's just something about him 😂

[@jaimefok]

LOL how could you not like Levin! 😂

[@talithareads]

Levin ❤I also liked his story much more than Anna's story.

[@jaimefok]

I’m obsessed with levin!

[@irissu02]

My favorite classic is french (because well I am) and it's called La petite fadette by George Sand (google tells me the name is translated as little fadette in English) It's a book my mum read to me 2 times and I read it 2 times too I just love it. It's a core memory for me

[@jaimefok]

@@irissu02 awwww I love that!

[@ayaaly2866]

The thumbnail is so cute😂❤totally not expected classics

[@jaimefok]

@@ayaaly2866 😂💕

[@EssenceEtienne]

My favorite classic would have to be Giovanni’s Room. It’s very short, very sad beautifully written

[@jaimefok]

@@EssenceEtienne oh I love sad books

[@angelaholmes8888]

My favorite classic is east of eden by John Steinbeck i read it 4 years ago i should had read it much earlier ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I have anna karenina on my tbr list

[@jaimefok]

Ooohh!

[@ThePlannedReader]

I almost got Anna Karenina from book outlet but I didn’t…kinda wish i did lol im reading a clockwork orange since i said i wanted to read more classics this year and here we are and this is the first one for the year

[@jaimefok]

omg! you can add to your next haul

[@Leni-g1y]

Such a cool video :) :)

[@jaimefok]

aww ty! 💕

[@emilyboulter5978]

My favourite classic (so far anyway) is the Grapes of Wrath. I read Crime and Punishment in high school and HATED it. I think this put me off of classics. I have wanted to read The Portrait of Dorian Grey so this has inspired me put it in my TBR.

[@jaimefok]

Lots of people are recommending the portrait of Dorian grey to me as well!

[@kanityreactions]

Also, Levin is also my favourite character from "Anna Karenina". I don't think Anna was intended to be likeable, and I also disliked her a lot. The book was probably named after her because her actions affected characters around her and put some events into motion; pretty often in russian literature you will have the main character follow the journey of "downfall", very unlike western literature (especially american) where the hero is likeable, starts the journey poor and achieves all the dreams in the end. In russian literature, the book is the exploration of human nature and society of the time, and more often you start with rich characters that lose it all by the end (or literally have any kind of "downfall"). And here, it was Anna.

[@jaimefok]

Makes a lot of sense! I just love Levin so much 😂

[@sheillasouza6111]

You read soooo fast, omg 😲👏🏼

[@jaimefok]

@@sheillasouza6111 devoured 😂

[@chocolateoreo6489]

💕💕💕

[@NadiaAbdulrahman-]

I'm not too familiar with classics myself, but I love "The Meek One" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Rocking-Chair" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and OF COURSE "Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke, best nonfiction both you and I will likely ever read. ♡♡

[@jaimefok]

@@NadiaAbdulrahman- oooh good to know!

[@CurlyLuci]

😍😍

[@baranhosseini-asl]

my favorite classic is to kill a mocking bird .... it's my fav book tho 🔥🔥

[@jaimefok]

@@baranhosseini-asl oooooh! I actually somehow have never read

[@kanityreactions]

13:00 That's due to the differences between how speech is shown in Russian and in English books. We DON'T use " " for direct speech; we use this: - This is interesting so far, - said Jaime. We'll use "" for names of things (like the book, "Anna Karenina"), for thoughts ("Cool", - she thought.) I feel like if this becomes confusing for a foreign reader, the translator should've come up with a solution. When I translate books from English, I use OUR system of writing dialogue. Seems like this translation did the same, but didn't account for the fact that " " parts would become confusing!

[@jaimefok]

This is really interesting!! Thanks for the info 💕

[@kwoot07]

I think you just sold me on reading Russian lit

[@jaimefok]

YAS

[@Soaring_Seajay]

❤

[@Thetrilingualreader]

The word excited is correct tho, you will find it in the same meaning in a lot of english classics that aren't translated.

[@jaimefok]

@@Thetrilingualreader ahh interesting!

[@Thetrilingualreader]

The great gatsby was written by Fitzgerald's wife and he stole her work

[@jaimefok]

@@Thetrilingualreader 😳

[@meloveschocolate]

Do you plan on doing Bookmas? If yes, you can get some ideas from Hailey in Bookland 🖤

[@jaimefok]

With work, I don’t think I can this year! 😭

[@someone0353]

Ayy earlyy

[@jaimefok]

@@someone0353 💕💕💕

[@justbeyourself1000]

It took me 2 years to finish Anna Karenina. It was really hard for me to read, because of the slow storytelling. I am glad I did finish it, but I would not read it again. The parts about the countryside (the work and the money) did not really interest me. The character development was good though...

[@jaimefok]

@@justbeyourself1000 totally fair!

[@aubreyveitenheimer6328]

I really did not enjoy pride and prejudice either 😐

[@jaimefok]

@@aubreyveitenheimer6328 I love the movie, but not the book 😂