Polka Dot Rock Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Here I am again, wading in with yet another challenge that ties in with my heaving TBR list. I've decided to put Modern Classics here too, which will be in the pink. These will usually be post-1900, although not always! January Vanity Fair - W.M Thackeray (8/10) March Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (6/10) April A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (5/10) May Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier (8/10) Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (10/10) My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier (8/10) TBR Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis Money - Martin Amis The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood Mansfield Park - Jane Austen Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen Villette - Charlotte Bronte The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (trans. Edith Grossmann) No Name - Wilkie Collins David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami Franny & Zooey - J.D Salinger Anna Karenina - L.N. Tolstoy To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Ooh, some interesting ones on your list (I have one matching and a couple of matching authors on top of that). I'll look forward to hearing what you think of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polka Dot Rock Posted April 14, 2007 Author Share Posted April 14, 2007 Thanks Kell I'll be keeping an eye on your progress too I'm thinking of saving The Mill on the Floss for my upcoming hols - seems quite summer-y, strangely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polka Dot Rock Posted April 22, 2007 Author Share Posted April 22, 2007 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1853) "Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?" The blurb: No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polka Dot Rock Posted April 22, 2007 Author Share Posted April 22, 2007 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857) The blurb: "Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?" Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations the consequences are devastating. Flaubert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyB Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 I'd still really like to read more French literature So I'll be looking to Judy for more tips! Ooh thanks Amy - I'm about to start reading The Earth by Emile Zola as my April Classics Challenge. Love your avatar by the way - I think the Moomins are gorgeous - have you read The Summer Book by Tove Jansson? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polka Dot Rock Posted April 22, 2007 Author Share Posted April 22, 2007 The Summer Book by Tove Janssen I think I remember hearing that The Summer Book is semi-autographical...? Or I may have misheard it... Hmm. As you've probably noticed, I'm on another French theme as I'm reading A Tale of Two Cities: who knew the French said "Thou" and other such Shakespearan-type-phrases a lot?! Erm, interesting idea, Mr Dickens! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polka Dot Rock Posted May 2, 2007 Author Share Posted May 2, 2007 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens The blurb: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icecream Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 I was bored with Great Expectations. I wrote some good essays on it when I read it for GCSE coursework, but that is as far as my interest goes. I loved reading Oliver though. The book is much better than the muaical! I've never read any others. Maybe I should have a classics reading list.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polka Dot Rock Posted May 3, 2007 Author Share Posted May 3, 2007 Maybe I should have a classics reading list.. I think you're doing remarkably well with reading as it is, as a first time mum. Maybe you could start reading Classic children's fiction, so you'll be ready to indoctrinate Katie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icecream Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Maybe. I have 80 books with the title children's classics upstairs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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