I’m glad I finally read this classic, but it just didn’t live up to the hype. I would have enjoyed it more if I had read it as a kid.
The Last Unicorn
Tag: classics
Dune
I listened to this audiobook so I would be ready for the new adaptation, but now that I’ve read it, I still have yet to see the movie.
The Invisible Man
I only had the vaguest idea of what this book was about before diving in, and although it wasn’t what I expected, I really enjoyed it.
Wives and Daughters
Romance, science, patriarchy, sisterhood, female friendships, money, hierarchy, aristocracy, the status quo. It’s all in Gaskell’s last novel.
Villette
I didn’t have high hopes for this book because the only this I had heard about it were not great, but I ended up really enjoying it.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
I’ve been listening to a podcast called Bonnets at Dawn, which has me rereading all of Jane Austen’s works, while introducing me to Brontë works with which I was previously unfamiliar. I was just getting ready to read Villette by Charlotte Brontë for a few episodes thy had comparing the book to Persuasion, but before …
North and South
I loved this book almost as much as I loved hearing the girls on Bonnets at Dawn discuss it.
The Return of the Native
Hardy’s poetic prose narrated by Alan Rickman’s magnificent voice is a match made in heaven.