kitty_kitty Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 Here are some of the classic books i have on my TBR pile although some might not be read unitl we move as they are in storage. April Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen - 1818 - 10 The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe TBR Turn of the screw - Henry James Emma - Jane Austen Mansfield Park - Jane Austen Sense and sensibility -Jane Austen Woman in white - Wilkie Collins Moonstone - Wilkie Collins Bleak House - Chales Dickins A tale of 2 cities - Charles Dickens Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Vanity Fair - WM Thackeray Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Kim - Rudyard Kipling The great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly The strange case of Jekyll and Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson In a glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Audio Books Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde The wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Irving Washington A tale of two Cities - Charles Dickens Villette - Charlotte Bronte Quote
Kell Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 Ooh, we've got a couple of matching titles in our lists - I'll look forward to talking about them with you! Glad you've joined the challenge. Quote
JudyB Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 There are quite a few on your list that I've read so I'll be interested to see how you enjoy them. Quote
kitty_kitty Posted April 13, 2007 Author Posted April 13, 2007 I nearly finished Northanger Abbey in a couple of sittings yesterday and i am really enjoying it too, i think it helps as they were on TV recently but i like to see the differences between the TV and the books. I would have finished it but i had an arguement with OH and too mad to think!! Quote
kitty_kitty Posted April 13, 2007 Author Posted April 13, 2007 Had a bath and finished Norhanger Abbey and i really enjoyed it, not too big a read either Quote
Kell Posted April 13, 2007 Posted April 13, 2007 Glad you enjoyed NA. Isn't it surprising how many classics aren't actually all that chunky? I always used to think of massive, hefty tomes when I thought of classic literature, but I'm reading Pride & Prejudice and it's less than 300 pages long, so nice and light to slip into my handbag. I'm also getting looks from people that look like they're saying, "smartypants!" at me with their eyes when they see I'm reading a classic, which I find rather funny! Quote
kitty_kitty Posted April 13, 2007 Author Posted April 13, 2007 I tend to leave them lying around so i look more intelligent!! Then they catch me talking to the cat or something or like friday running into picnic tables and the illusion is shattered Quote
kitty_kitty Posted April 27, 2007 Author Posted April 27, 2007 I am reading Mysteries of Udolpho and really enjoying but it gave me night terrors last night! Which is funny as i am used to reading really gory and scarey horror books too.......... Quote
kitty_kitty Posted May 11, 2007 Author Posted May 11, 2007 I am struggling with Udolpho butr not because i am not enjoying rather like swimming through custard, hardwork but enjoyable. I think it is because it is what i think of as a winter book, redaing it curled up with a nice glass of red wine, fire roaring and which ever pet i can bribe to snuggle with me Quote
JudyB Posted May 11, 2007 Posted May 11, 2007 I struggled with The Castle of Otranto and it's only 80 pages long. Not sure what the problem was - the writing wasn't easy but it didn't help that I kept nodding off every time I picked it up. I'm hoping that The Monk will hold my attention more when I come to read it. Quote
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