I L O V E the book and the movie Room with a View! My husband and I watched it when we were dating and falling in love. We rewatch it at least once a year. When my son was studying abroad in Florence, we finally saw the city in person.
Behind the Glass: A Parsonage Podcast- The Bronte Parsonage Museum
I highly recommend this sweet podcast of everything Bronte, their expert guests are just divine to listen to! Two seasons in and I look forward to each episode; in fact it's a place I would love to travel to, along with Florence mentioned in your Endnotes. Your recommendation of Still Life, and a re-read of Room with a View lead me down that path as well! Enjoy the parsonage podcast- let me know what you think! -Nancy
I LOVE that podcast. Thank you for knowing I would enjoy it and recommending it to me. The S1 episode with Lizzy Newman made me cry. I loved it so much! You definitely need to visit the Parsonage — such a special place.
So happy you liked Still Life! I get all glowy in my heart just thinking of that book 😊
Thanks so much for this, with a vortex of great links that will keep me happy while wfh next week! Glad to have discovered your Substack. Might watch Room with A View again now (for the gazillioneth time).
Must admit, haven't read Room With A View but I've put it on hold at my library. I loved the video clips and the comments about how much this book/movie is loved!
The LitHub article about book recommendations was hilarious! I have the opposite problem - I know books I love, but when someone asks for a book recommendation I always feel like its a loaded request. Do I know you enough to recommend a book? What if you hate it? What if you avoid me because you think the book sucked and you can't muster the strength to tell me?! (All questions that run through my head with ramped up intensity) so my brain freezes and I just dive into the awkwardness of being an adult who recommends a vampire story in a world still struggling to recover from the Twilight Series, "Well, there's this book set in eastern Europe about vampires ..." and all bets are off.
Oooh, I'm excited for you to read it! I hesitate to say this, but... you might even want to watch the movie first (?). I feel like I might have missed some of the humor and the swoony romance in the book if I hadn't seen the film first. But as you know from listening to the show, I don't read funny very well, so you might do better with it than I did. At the very least, you must imagine Maggie Smith as Cousin Charlotte as you read :-)
Recommending books is fraught, right?! I always feel like I have to say, 'I hope you like it... but it's OK if you don't. I want to talk about it either way.'
You should also know that, 'Well, there's this book set in eastern Europe about vampires ...' would win me over immediately.
A Room with a View became one of my favorite films when I saw it as a kid, and then one of my favorite novels when I read it years later. The story brings me so much joy. I've had a terrible week and your show notes for Florence, the book, the movie, and about my beloved E.M. Forster were so lovely to wake up to this morning. Thank you so much for this, and for all the amazing podcast episodes!
I hope you have an amazing weekend!
Love,
Danielle Davies
P.S. Check out A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster for a fascinating biography!
Danielle! I'm so happy this stuff appeared just when you needed it! (And I'm sorry you've had a terrible week. Sometimes are just like that, and it's the WORST. I hope you're feeling a little better today.)
I spent my walk today listening to that BBC podcast about why EM Forster is great, and it was... great. Fantastic conversation and details about his other books which I haven't read yet. I came home and downloaded the audiobook of 'Howard's End' to listen to on the plane tomorrow. Definitely give that podcast a listen!
Thank you for the biography recommendation. I think it would be really fun to do a Forster immersion when this podcast season is done: read the bio, read all his books, watch the adaptations.
I L O V E the book and the movie Room with a View! My husband and I watched it when we were dating and falling in love. We rewatch it at least once a year. When my son was studying abroad in Florence, we finally saw the city in person.
Oh, that's so romantic! I love it so much. Thank you for telling me that!
Behind the Glass: A Parsonage Podcast- The Bronte Parsonage Museum
I highly recommend this sweet podcast of everything Bronte, their expert guests are just divine to listen to! Two seasons in and I look forward to each episode; in fact it's a place I would love to travel to, along with Florence mentioned in your Endnotes. Your recommendation of Still Life, and a re-read of Room with a View lead me down that path as well! Enjoy the parsonage podcast- let me know what you think! -Nancy
I LOVE that podcast. Thank you for knowing I would enjoy it and recommending it to me. The S1 episode with Lizzy Newman made me cry. I loved it so much! You definitely need to visit the Parsonage — such a special place.
So happy you liked Still Life! I get all glowy in my heart just thinking of that book 😊
Thanks so much for this, with a vortex of great links that will keep me happy while wfh next week! Glad to have discovered your Substack. Might watch Room with A View again now (for the gazillioneth time).
I endorse this behavior 😉
Must admit, haven't read Room With A View but I've put it on hold at my library. I loved the video clips and the comments about how much this book/movie is loved!
The LitHub article about book recommendations was hilarious! I have the opposite problem - I know books I love, but when someone asks for a book recommendation I always feel like its a loaded request. Do I know you enough to recommend a book? What if you hate it? What if you avoid me because you think the book sucked and you can't muster the strength to tell me?! (All questions that run through my head with ramped up intensity) so my brain freezes and I just dive into the awkwardness of being an adult who recommends a vampire story in a world still struggling to recover from the Twilight Series, "Well, there's this book set in eastern Europe about vampires ..." and all bets are off.
Oooh, I'm excited for you to read it! I hesitate to say this, but... you might even want to watch the movie first (?). I feel like I might have missed some of the humor and the swoony romance in the book if I hadn't seen the film first. But as you know from listening to the show, I don't read funny very well, so you might do better with it than I did. At the very least, you must imagine Maggie Smith as Cousin Charlotte as you read :-)
Recommending books is fraught, right?! I always feel like I have to say, 'I hope you like it... but it's OK if you don't. I want to talk about it either way.'
You should also know that, 'Well, there's this book set in eastern Europe about vampires ...' would win me over immediately.
Hi Melissa,
A Room with a View became one of my favorite films when I saw it as a kid, and then one of my favorite novels when I read it years later. The story brings me so much joy. I've had a terrible week and your show notes for Florence, the book, the movie, and about my beloved E.M. Forster were so lovely to wake up to this morning. Thank you so much for this, and for all the amazing podcast episodes!
I hope you have an amazing weekend!
Love,
Danielle Davies
P.S. Check out A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster for a fascinating biography!
Danielle! I'm so happy this stuff appeared just when you needed it! (And I'm sorry you've had a terrible week. Sometimes are just like that, and it's the WORST. I hope you're feeling a little better today.)
I spent my walk today listening to that BBC podcast about why EM Forster is great, and it was... great. Fantastic conversation and details about his other books which I haven't read yet. I came home and downloaded the audiobook of 'Howard's End' to listen to on the plane tomorrow. Definitely give that podcast a listen!
Thank you for the biography recommendation. I think it would be really fun to do a Forster immersion when this podcast season is done: read the bio, read all his books, watch the adaptations.