Today I am going to be continuing on with recommendations series and the topic of this post is my favourite classics. I have posted a Where to start with classics post, which you can check out here, and all of those books are part of my favourite classics as well. For this post, I have picked … More Recommendations: Favourite Classics
Today I have another review in the form of 5 reasons to read… As you can probably see from the title I’ve chosen to talk about To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I first read this around the age of 15/16 for GCSE English Literature and I have reread a few times since. I think this … More 5 Reasons to Read To Kill A Mockingbird /Harper Lee
The title pretty much says it all – today I am going to share some classics that I would like to read. I do not own all of these books and this is not an immediate tbr. These are just some books that I would like to read at some point in the future. Some … More Classics TBR
Title / Mary Barton Author / Elizabeth Gaskell Publication Date / 1848 (first published) Page no. / 484 Star Rating / ★★★ Mary Barton is the daughter of a factory work who dreams of a better life, so when she catches the eye of the mill-owner’s charming son Henry, she hopes it will be her way out of the hard … More Mary Barton / Elizabeth Gaskell
I thought I would continue my recommendations series by talking about some classics. Today I am going to share some ideas as to where to start reading classics. Just a bit of a disclaimers, there is no set place to start – these are just some ideas. Everyone’s taste is different and different places will … More Classics : Where to start
This tag was created by 1book1review. Click here to see the original video. You basically show 5 of the biggest books you have read and 2 of the biggest books you haven’t read. Going through my books, I think I have picked out my biggest books so let’s get started. The Name of the Wind / Patrick Rothfuss … More Big Book Tag
Title / Ruth Author / Elizabeth Gaskell Publication date / 1853 (first published) Page no. / 432 Star rating / ★★★.5 This is one of Gaskell’s social novels, as it focuses on the idea of a ‘fallen woman’. Ruth Hilton, a orphaned young seamstress, catches the eye of Henry Bellingham, but when he deserts her, … More 2 Mini Reviews of Classics
Title / Thérèse Raquin Author / Émile Zola Publication Date / 1867 (first published) No. of pages / 256 Star rating / ★★★ Set in the 1800s and originally written in French, it follows a young woman called Thérèse Raquin who is in the care of her aunt Madame Raquin and forced to marry her sickly … More Therese Raquin / Emile Zola
I am currently reading this hefty classic and when writing this am about halfway through. The edition I am reading is the Penguin Clothbound and it is translated by Anthony Briggs. Now I never really thought that I would read War and Peace; mainly due to the fact the size is intimidating, and I thought … More War&Peace / Leo Tolstoy
