getting frustrated by the influx of posts and comments in this forum about not understanding joseph, and how his dialogue is 'gibberish' and how you can just skip all his dialogue because it's not 'relevant'. firstly, you're not reading it properly if you're skipping great chunks of dialogue. secondly, he's not from the moon, he's from yorkshire; this whole book is set in yorkshire. I know it's hard to read, especially if english isn't your first language or you're unfamiliar with the yorkshire accent, but I wish people would at least try, rather than trying to skip his bits or laughing at them. one google gives you a webpage that 'translates' every bit of joseph's dialogue, it's very easy to find. (https://wuthering-heights.co.uk/josephs-speech). and at least try and think a bit about why bronte might have chosen to put down his dialogue (and ONLY his dialogue, by and large) this way.

wuthering heights is a narrative which is about class and privilege to a huge degree. accent and dialect is a massive class indicator in the UK and making fun of someone's accent or dialect (especially / largely the northern or rural accents, or irish/scottish/welsh accents) is a very common classist sentiment to this day. I know people don't mean badly but it rubs me the wrong way to see people laughing and acting as if it's totally unintelligible. lots of people still use those words and those pronunciations; the yorkshire dialect has modernised and become less common but it does still exist! yorkshire people still exist! please google some context when you're reading classics and try to engage thoughtfully. it's fun to have a laugh while reading and make little jokes but just think about what the jokes are based on maybe?

Please share your systems for choosing the books you're about to read this year, if you have one. (little Update on the original post as I realised I made it a little too personal and maybe not as open to the community as I wanted it to be).

I hope that by curating a list for my reading goal, for this year, to achieve said goal.

I'm aiming to touch on various genres, cultures and writing stiles. So far I've put books into the "interested pile" but I'm not confident in sorting them or making a commitment yet as I keep stumbling over interesting lists and feel like I would like a little of everything.

Any suggestions on how to approach this are greatly appreciated!

“Besides, what do you have to offer any woman? ‘I will make sure you always have warm socks,’ Is not a line to set anyone’s heart aglow.’ 🥰🥰🥰

Short chapters! 😍 I love short chapters.

I work with video and I've always wanted to create video content for myself as an outlet. I've never felt that I read enough books to make BookTube content, as I mostly watch people who are super, super well read on there, but yapping on here is giving me confidence. I've set myself an arbitrary number of books, and if I hit that number I plan to make a yearly wrap up at least, but I was wondering what that looks like for you, how many books do you think a BookTuber should be reading, rough ballpark?