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…

10 Books That Have Stayed With Me

1. To Kill a Mockingbird The first book on my list of books that have stayed with me has to…

Reading the Classics: Of Mice and Men

Unlike many of my peers, I did not read Of Mice and Men at school. This novel has been studied…

Reading the Classics: Emma

The latest instalment to my ‘Reading the Classics‘ series is Jane Austen’s Emma. I must say throughout my journey of…

Reading the Classics: Jane Eyre

The second Brontë novel in my Reading the Classics series is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. A romance yet a…

Reading the Classics: And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel And Then There Were None somewhat took over my life last week. The book arrived…

Reading the Classics: Persuasion

The book that has stuck with me the most throughout my Reading the Classics journey has undoubtedly been Jane Austen’s…

Reading the Classics: A Tale of Two Cities

After reading George Orwell’s Animal Farm, I decided to move away from 20th-century literature for a while. I loved Pride…

Reading the Classics: Animal Farm

After reading Pride and Prejudice I decided to read something a little lighter. The next book in my ‘Reading the…

Reading the Classics: Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice was a novel I had attempted to read many years ago. Because I had struggled to get…

Reading the Classics: 1984

1984 has long been my daughter’s favourite book. Shamefully, my knowledge of the text had had, up until now, been…

Reading the Classics: Wuthering Heights

At the dawn of 2019, I set myself a challenge, to read as many classics as possible this year. I came…