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Today is my first year with the Classics Club! A year ago today I posted my list (which was revised continuously for weeks!), and since then I've read 84 out of 180.
My favourites? They're pictured above:
- The Idiot by Dostoevsky. I loved this so much I named my budgie after Myshkin (however Myshkin turned out to be a girl, so I suppose her formal name now must be Myska. True to form, she refuses to pose with this book, but you all know what she looks like anyway).
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. I'm always overjoyed to see people reading this!
- Shirley by Charlotte Brontë. And not just for the description of the moors on the Scottish Borders.
- Howards End by E.M. Forster. And yet I've not read another Forster, but I do have
A Passage to India and Room with a View to come. - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The first book I read in 2013, and without a doubt, I couldn't have picked a better first. I took far too long to read this one.
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (not pictured because I lent it to my mum). All I can say is thank you, Adam!
- Paradise Lost by John Milton. Beautiful.
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. One of the may brilliant books I read in September (which was my extraordinarily good reading run, just before the dreaded rut).
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlosde Lacos. Read this February for French February.
- The Nun by Denis Diderot. Insane, but awesome.
- The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. This book, that ending, will stay with me forever.
- The Brothers Karamazov, another one by Dostoevsky. Incredibly dense and complex, but a must-read.
Many of my favourites are also in your list. But I must ask what made you love 'North and South' so much. I read it recently and... I didn't like it that much, at least not as much as I'd expected. I enjoyed everything that was unrelated to the lovestory between Thornton and Margaret (she kind of upsets me).
ReplyDeleteAlso, The Brothers Kharamazov has been in my whishlist forever! Even if I loved Crime and Punishment I cannot get myself to buy it, partly because then I'd have to read it (and I'm irrationally afraid of long books, even if I've been proven mistaken so many times) and also I want to find a really good translation, but I don't know who to ask xD
And, wow! 84 in a year it's a lot!! I've read 48 so far xD It'll be a year I joined the challenge at the end of April and I'm having quite a lot of fun so far. I've always loved the 'classics' but this has been the most successful and interesting way to know more of them! (and people who also like reading them :))
ReplyDeleteWOW! 84 classics in a year! That's impressive! I don't think I'll be ever able to achieve such an aim. Congrats!
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