One and a half months into my 2019 reading challenge and I think it’s time to talk about it. I know it’s February, but I like the thought of talking about each month’s reading, and January is a good place to start. Present over Perfect by Shauna Niequist This book sounded like a good way … Continue reading January 2019 Reading
One of my sisters and I decided that we would read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte at the same time, then talk about it. Our first goal is to read the first five chapters, which is fifty pages or so, then discuss; and so on until completion. This doesn't seem like a hard thing to … Continue reading So It Begins
I’ve been reading The Secret Garden all afternoon. It’s been lovely. I like it because it’s a relatively girly book without being chicklit or romance. It’s just a nice story with great character development and plot. Classics are seriously the best. It’s nice to read something, well, nice because this afternoon has been pretty down. … Continue reading The Art of Reading Classics
I really enjoy reading Agatha Christie novels. Whenever I start an Agatha Christie, there’s usually a part of me that struggles because there are so many characters and half of them are French so you can’t pronounce their names, so each time you read their name you kind of skim over it in your mind. … Continue reading The Art of Reading Agatha Christie
Classic books tend to be my favourites, because they’re so well written and so beautiful and, whilst some of them are tragic, they have really satisfying endings. Thing is, they’re really hard to read. Usually after the first 50-100 pages you’re into the story and you’re used to the rhythm of the book and language … Continue reading The Art of Loving Classics
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