Hello everyone! I am Reesha and this is
for the love of classics. today's video
is going to be a tag video. I saw the
amiable bib  do a book tag. the tag
sounded super fun and I decided to do it
as well.
the original creator of this book tag is:
princess of paperback, I'm going to link
both of their videos down below. so you
can check them out as well. so the first
prompt is laying in bed and it is a book
you code or have read in a day: I really
like to read books in bed and there have
been a couple of books which I have read
in bed and I finished them in one day
and for me the first one would be Harry
Potter and the order of the Phoenix and
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I
have vivid memories of finishing these
books in one day, even though they are
some of the longest books in the Harry
Potter series. I was transfixed with
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
because I wanted to know how the series
would end, so I binge read that book in
one sitting and I had an amazing, amazing
experience reading that book. when it
comes to classics, there is one book
which I binge read and that was Agnes
Gray by Anne Bronte. classics usually
have language which is a bit more
complicated and requires more attention
but I read Agnes Gray in one sitting, in
one day and absolutely loved it, the
second prompt is snacking: a guilty
pleasure book? my guilty pleasure books
are
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and
Persuasion by Jane Austen. whenever I am
feeling really low or sad, I usually go
to these books and I read my favorite
passages from these books. Jane Austen's
sense of humor and her beautiful writing
brings me out of my reading slumps and
my bad moods I especially like the
letters in these books the one which Mr.
Darcy wrote to Elizabeth Bennett and the
one which Captain Wentworth wrote to
Anne Elliot. I can listen no longer,
I must speak to you by such means as are
within my reach. you pierced my soul. I'm
half agony, half hope. the third prompt is
Netflix; a series you want to start? so I
just checked my Netflix there are so
many series I want to start but honestly
I'm so scared of starting series on
Netflix. I prefer watching movies as
compared to series because series are
such a commitment but there are a couple
of series on Netflix which I want to see
soon...
so the series I want to watch on Netflix
are mostly historical or related to
books, so I want to watch the
Frankenstein Chronicles, history 101,
Troy: the fall of the city and rise of
Empires: Ottoman. if you would like to
recommend any Netflix series please let
me know down in the comments because
I've got some spare time. the next prompt
is deep-clean: a book which has been on
your TBR for ages? so I went to my
Goodreads to be read list to see which of
my TBR books have been on the shelf the
longest. I'm going to share three of
these: the first one is a vanity fair' by
William Makepeace Thackeray.
this has been on my TBR since the year
2012. so it has been there for almost
seven years now and since seven is a
magical number, I should probably start
reading Vanity Fair this year. the next
book which has been on my TBR for a
while is a Tale of Two Cities by Charles
Dickens and the third one which has been
on my TBR for a while is the Iliad by
Homer. one of the first videos on my
channel was a classic book haul and
these were the two classics I hauled n
that video. the next prompt is Animal
Crossing: a book you recently bought
because of the hype? so I bought a
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier because of
the hype recently and
 I have finished reading
this book and I really enjoyed it.
another classic which I have recently
hauled is Marriage by Susan Farrier and
the reason I bought it is because I
heard a lot of booktubers talk about how
amazing this book was so I am very
excited to start reading this one. this
is in the Virago modern classics edition.
I think it is one of the best book
covers in existence. the next prompt is
productivity: a book you learned from or
a book which had an impact on you? there
have been so many books which have
impacted me throughout my life. one of
the books which drew me towards classics
and made me fall in love with this genre
of literature was Middlemarch by George
Eliot. this book basically made me decide
that I really want to read more classics.
so this is definitely one of those
game-changing books for me. another book
which I am learning a lot from as I read
it is The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor
Dostoevsky.
I am currently reading this masterpiece
and believe me when I say it it's not an
easy book to read, it's taking me forever
to read because it requires a lot of
concentration and headspace to
understand what Dostoyevsky is trying to
say but this writer is brilliant. he is a
philosopher, through and through. when it
comes to the plot we have only been
through a couple of days in the life of
these characters; I'm halfway done
through the book and I have learned so
much already. this book brought tears to
my eyes; it's deep, it's emotional, it's
true and heart-wrenching and I am loving
it so much and learning so much from it
as I read it. at one point I decided to
stop reading this book because it was so
raw and emotional and with everything
that has been going on around us I
thought that it was a bit too much but
I've decided to continue with it because
I just don't want to leave it halfway
through. the next prompt is FaceTime;
book you were gifted? one of the first
books which I was gifted was Harry
Potter and the half-blood Prince; I
remember one of my sisters gave that
book to me and I hadn't read the first
five books in the series then. after
reading the sixth book I went and bought
myself the first five books in the
series, so that was one of the best gifts
I have been given in my life. another
book which I was gifted was The Da Vinci
Code by Dan Brown. I was gifted the Quran
by my Aunt on my wedding, so that was a
very dear gift. the books which I have
been gifted recently are the small house
at Allington by Anthony Trollope. this
was another present from my sister. the
warden by Anthony Trollope; this was a
present from my father-in-law. the next
prompt is self-care: what is one thing
you have done recently to look after
yourself?
the one thing I'm doing for myself at
the moment would be read. I have been
reading for fun. I've been filming
content for my channel for fun. I also
made a couple of tic tocks, I'm never
going to show them to anyone but I just
made them for myself. so the last prompt
is a bonus and it says that name a book
which is coming out soon, I'm so bad at
keeping up with recent releases and I
don't know many. so I guess there will be
no bonus points for me. if you know any
new releases which you are excited about;
let me know down in the comments and
that's it, this was another fun video. I
did for self-care, so I hope you guys
enjoyed that as well, if you have any
suggestions for other videos, please let
me know down in the comments I also want
to do a Q&A video, if you have any
questions you want to ask please ask in
the comments down below. I'm going to see
you all in my next video very, very soon.
bye!
