I was thinking of my favorite love stories and I remembered this one. So I picked it up and read it again. And I still love it. It is still so good. This is the last book in the Anne of Green Gables series. The whole series is worth reading, but I just love this [...]
Category Archives: Classic
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
January 19, 2010 – 3:36 am
East of Eden follows two generations of the Trask family as well as the Hamiliton family in the Salinas valley in California, and basically covers from the American civil war to world war I. It feels like a very ambitious novel. I think this book has everything but the kitchen sink all stirred [...]
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
September 30, 2009 – 4:23 am
I was immediately pulled in by this book and the complex cast of characters. Why was I drawn in? Partly because of the difficulty of getting into the book in the beginning. Still I felt there was something great waiting for me if I kept at it. I am so glad [...]
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
May 20, 2009 – 6:00 pm
I hadn’t read a novel by any other Bronte (besides Charlotte) so I decided to pick this one up. I was not disappointed. I loved this one. I have a huge project due at the end of the week but I still stayed up till 1:30 reading it. I get kind of obsessed when I [...]
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
May 5, 2009 – 9:18 pm
I finished reading this one today. It was my second time through. I found it kind of difficult to get through because I already knew all the plot twists and I was impatient for them. Jane Austen was really pretty funny. Her humour is so understated that if you’re not paying attention, you’ll miss it. [...]
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
March 24, 2009 – 10:46 pm
Wuthering Heights was a pleasant read and remarkably easy to loose yourself in. The start is a bit slow but the characters and relationships are very intriguing and uniqe and quickly become hard to put down. I’m not a huge romance fan, but if you throw in enough tragedy, inner conflict, pride, circumstance, and self [...]
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
April 30, 2008 – 5:11 pm
This was Austen’s first work and last to be published. She sold it early on and the buyer never published it. Frustrated with the buyer Austen later bought it back from him but was unable to publish it during her lifetime. Her brother Henry Austen published it after her death.
As it was her first [...]
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom with Elizabeth and John Sherrill
February 11, 2008 – 4:24 pm
Out of anything I have read in my recent memory, this book has affected me the most. It is the real life story of Corrie Ten Boom. She lived a life full of happiness and misery. Hers is a story of rebuilding and healing. Finding peace among chaos and sharing that with anyone who would [...]
Little Britches by Ralph Moody
December 17, 2007 – 4:44 pm
This is a beautifully written story about the author’s transition from boy to man. He starts the novel at the age of eight and by the time he is eleven, he becomes the man of the family. It beautifully illustrates a wonderful relationship of a father and his oldest son. Ralph’s father knew him so [...]
Persuasion by Jane Austen
November 9, 2006 – 11:04 pm
I really enjoyed reading this one. This was the last book that Jane Austen wrote before she died and it was published after. I think for that reason, her character Anne is much more mature than her other leading ladies. The pattern for the book was typical Austen but it was still really enjoyable. I [...]
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
October 6, 2006 – 2:53 am
I really should really mention that the version I read was illustrated by Barry Moser. I haven’t read a book with illustrations in a long time. The few pictures in the book were more like portraits of the characters. I thought the one of Kit made her look like she was twelve not sixteen.
The book [...]
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
August 21, 2006 – 2:06 am
This is a beautiful classic with a matte finish. I loved this novel. It did take me some time to get into it, but once I did I was a reading zombie for a few days. This little orphan girl lives with her relatives where there is a stark contrast between the way she is [...]
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
August 9, 2006 – 8:51 pm
I read this one probably six months ago. This novel really affected me. It was really hard to read. The language was hard to conquor and the sheer brutality of the way the slaves were treated makes this novel a hard read. It was written in the 1850s before the civil war. She wrote the [...]
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin
February 13, 2006 – 4:24 pm
I must be getting the hang of reading these classics because I loved this book. I think I liked it better than Pride and Prejudice. I can’t wait to see the movie. The fact that Suzi hated it is probably good news. We never seem to like the same movies. Charlotte you own Sense and [...]
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
February 9, 2006 – 5:52 pm
This book read like an old movie. It was an interesting adventure story. The only theme that I can pick out without a lot of digging is that our society needs to slow down and not be in such a hurry. The book was written in 1933 so we need that message much more [...]
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
February 2, 2006 – 5:43 pm
This is another book that I have wanted to conquor for a long time. In the past I have had a really hard time reading the classics. I found the language too flowery and what are they really trying to say anyway. But I finished it. I liked the book but I think I like [...]
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
February 2, 2006 – 5:35 pm
I loved this book. It has been a book I’ve wanted to read for a long time and I finally got the chance to do it. The story is told through the eyes of young girl growing up in the south during the 30s. It is written like a memoir with the narrator jumping in [...]