Please link your reviews for your Classic with Single-Word Title here. This is only for the Classic with a Single-Word Title category. Examples include Emma, Germinal, Middlemarch, Kidnapped!, etc. (Titles with articles such as "a," "an," and "the," do not count.)
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Unfortunately, I wasn't too thrilled with my choice for this category. Ramona was too much romance for me.
ReplyDeleteMother by Norris was a bit to saccharine and I like saccharine! ;) However, much of it had to do with the time period it was written in and the authors point of view on life. Overall, it was a nice look at the influence mothers have on their children. Amy @ HearthRidgeReflections
ReplyDeleteI just finished reading Macbeth by William Shakespeare. I thoroughly enjoyed this play and was completely drawn into the tragedy and heartache of each of the characters. Loved it!
ReplyDeleteMy review is at Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2289518034
Shirley (stampartiste)
I chose Middlemarch and was surprised in more than one way with it! First its length, and then how much I loved it.
ReplyDeleteOne of my top 5 books of all time--I've read it at least 5 times and love it more than ever.
DeleteCelestina is quite a book, 519 years old and still going strong. I liked this modern translation a lot, but it's really a book you read for its historical value. Called the first European novel.
ReplyDeleteI read Candide for this and thought it was great. Surprisingly funny and fast-paced.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear that, as I just bought a copy of Candide and was a bit hesitant to jump in!
DeleteMade it through Middlemarch - woot!
ReplyDeleteEmma was a great choice for this one. Not all classics are lighthearted, so when we find one that is, we should go for it.
ReplyDeleteI read Emma too and loved it!
DeleteOoops. I just realized that I didn't post the correct link above in the Linky. Somehow I had https:// twice... I don't know how to fix it, but here is the real link.
ReplyDeletehttps://toworkwonders.wordpress.com/2018/05/22/manalive-by-g-k-chesterton-1912/
If you make a mistake with the link, just add a second link and I can delete the first. No problem!
DeleteVathek, by William Beckford. I was surprised how much I liked it - I hadn't expected to, going in!
ReplyDeleteI read and adored Kidnapped.
ReplyDeleteI read Manalive, a light-hearted read about serious topics. It was a welcome break from denser reads.
ReplyDeleteI read Thomas More's Utopia as part of a group read. I wasn't thrilled with it but it was worth reading.
ReplyDeleteI read Persuasion - it was a pretty breezy read!
ReplyDeleteFinished Cranford at the end of July. I really liked this one more than I expected to.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Eliot's Romola. Not her best, but, hey, it's still George Eliot...though the Middlemarch readers for this category got the better deal!
ReplyDeleteI read Kallocain by Karin Boye. It was a little bland, but the story was interesting. Since it was a totalitarian dystopian novel, it made me want to read 1984 by George Orwell again.
ReplyDeletePhantastes has been sitting on my TBR for too long. Finally read it!
ReplyDeleteLinked my review to Catriona by R.L. Stevenson. Published in the USA as David Balfour just to confuse everyone.
ReplyDeleteJust finished Middlemarch. It started slow, but was worth it. https://100greatestnovelsofalltimequest.blogspot.com/2018/10/middlemarch-by-george-elliot-novel-110.html
ReplyDeleteIt had been a long time since I had read a book by Anya Seton. Reading "Katherine" reminded me how deep the research is behind her very enjoyable historical romances. A good book to curl up with.
ReplyDeleteI appreciated Ivanhoe but didn't especially enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteI read Night by Elie Wiesel for this category. Incredible read, horrifying tale, as are all tales of the Holocaust. Left me numb.
ReplyDeleteI finally finished all of Jane Austen's novels with Emma!
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