Reading the Classics: The Old Curiosity Shop
Reading the Classics has been a rather neglected category of my blog, precisely because I decided to tackle the mammoth…
Reading the Classics has been a rather neglected category of my blog, precisely because I decided to tackle the mammoth…
1. To Kill a Mockingbird The first book on my list of books that have stayed with me has to…
Unlike many of my peers, I did not read Of Mice and Men at school. This novel has been studied…
The latest instalment to my ‘Reading the Classics‘ series is Jane Austen’s Emma. I must say throughout my journey of…
The second Brontë novel in my Reading the Classics series is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. A romance yet a…
Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel And Then There Were None somewhat took over my life last week. The book arrived…
The book that has stuck with me the most throughout my Reading the Classics journey has undoubtedly been Jane Austen’s…
After reading George Orwell’s Animal Farm, I decided to move away from 20th-century literature for a while. I loved Pride…
After reading Pride and Prejudice I decided to read something a little lighter. The next book in my ‘Reading the…
Pride and Prejudice was a novel I had attempted to read many years ago. Because I had struggled to get…
1984 has long been my daughter’s favourite book. Shamefully, my knowledge of the text had had, up until now, been…
At the dawn of 2019, I set myself a challenge, to read as many classics as possible this year. I came…