Please link your reviews for your Classic with a Color in the Title here. This is only for the Classic with a Color in the Title category. Examples include The Woman in White, Anne of Green Gables, The Red and the Black, etc. (Silver, gold, etc. also count).
If you do not have a blog, or somewhere public on the internet where you post book reviews, please write your mini-review/thoughts in the comments section. If you like, you can include the name of your blog and/or the title of the book in your link, like this: "Karen K. @ Books and Chocolate (The Black Tulip)."
The Woman in White was the first book I have read by Wilkie Collins. I thoroughly enjoyed the convoluted plot, the method that Collins used to advance the plot, and the outstanding character development. I look forward to reading The Moonstone.
ReplyDeleteWilkie Collins is wonderful. I also enjoyed Armadale and No Name (Armadale has an especially convoluted plot, with four different characters named Armadale!) If you like Victorian sensation novels, I also recommend Mary Elizabeth Braddon, she wrote a ton of novels which are mostly out of print but easy to get free on Gutenberg and ibooks.
DeleteI liked Moonstone more than The Woman in White.
DeleteI read in the introduction to Trollope's Ralph the Heir that having different characters with the same name was a bit of a fad among Victorian writers of the time. Sheesh, readers then must have a lot more tolerance for confusion and fog than we post-moderns do.....
DeleteMy book for this prompt was White Nights, by Dostoyevsky… I read it in Spanish. I arrived to it because it was mentioned in After the Quake by Murakami. I don't know if it was because I was forced to read him in school, but I don't remember enjoying any Dostoyevsky like I did White Nights <3
ReplyDeleteI read Agatha Christie's The Man in the Brown Suit - I love Christie, but this isn't one of my favorites. Not a Miss Marple; not a Poirot. The story is told by a young woman with excerpts from an older man's journal. I didn't care for the writing style.
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If I see a Virago book in a used book store I buy it. So I had owned Red Pottage for years until the classics challenge caused me to read it. I enjoyed it greatly and can imagine why it sold well in 1899. It's a `new woman' book which is both powerfully disruptive and witty. I grew up in a small town in England so some of the satire about the Anglican church and the social hierarchy rang very true. A very good read.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about the Viragos -- I'm always drawn to the green spines in used bookshops. I loved Red Pottage and was half wishing I had saved it for the challenge this year, it was one of my favorite reads in 2017.
DeleteI read The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen. It was...strange. I couldn't tell if it was ripping off Sherlock Holmes or making fun of it so I didn't know how to take it. I don't think I would read any more of the series.
ReplyDeleteThe Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie - To understand Agatha Christie you must understand that it is never the obvious person.
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"The Red House Mystery" by AA Milne (yes, THAT AA Milne!) His only mystery novel. I'd call it a cozy mystery with a lot of humorous banter between the amateur sleuths.
ReplyDeleteScarlet Pimpernel- it felt slightly sacrilegious that I had seen the movie and musical so many times and had never actually read the book.
ReplyDeleteMy choice for this category was Under the Greenwood Tree, by Thomas Hardy. A bit of a non-event, as far as the plot went, and not an easy read either :(
ReplyDeleteRead The Children of Green Knowe, a classic I'd never heard of until a few weeks ago... I was disappointed.
ReplyDeleteI read A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Canon Doyle. I loved the Sherlock Holmes short stories when I was a kid and was glad to be able to read my first Sherlock Holmes novel. Also good that it was the very first Sherlock/Watson story in the long line of short stories/novels featuring the duo. Enjoyed and wondered if the writers of CSI and other forensics shows read these books. Sherlock was the original fictional forensics detective.
ReplyDeleteI read The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins. I liked it a leeeetle less than The Moonstone, but I still thouroughly enjoyed the read and am looking forward to reading more by Collins.
ReplyDeleteI notice that scarlet seems to be a very popular colour, here. I read The Scarlet Letter, and in a way it reminds me of that Les Miserables song. "Red, the colour of desire! Black, the colour of despair!"
ReplyDeleteI read The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge. It was a wonderful and magical fairy tale. I greatly enjoyed the story!
ReplyDeleteI found The Black Tulip suspenseful - once I got past a lot of the political machinations which didn't hold my interest.
ReplyDeleteI reentered my link bc the one at #32 was not the right one. The one in #42 should lead to my review. Sorry! I did't know how to remove the link.
ReplyDeleteJust posted about The Black Arrow, which completes the challenge for me this year! Earliest I ever finished.
ReplyDeleteJust finished Dream of the Red Chamber and the 2018 Back to the Classics Challenge. Wrap up post in a few days.
ReplyDeleteI looked it up, and there are peach colored (and named!) crayons, so I say it counts haha!
ReplyDeleteOops. I did not fully understand the system with single thematic link-ups before now. All I have written is thei one - colour in the title-rewiew. I'm not sure I'll ever make it this year, but it has made me think. I'll return next year.
ReplyDeleteAnd then I found out that I have been wiser than I now am. Please delete linky number 51. *Blush*
ReplyDeleteJust Finished Woman in White. Interesting book.
ReplyDeleteI read Anne of Green Gables..I think it was my first time reading the unabridged book!
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