Please link your reviews for your Classic with a Place in the Title here. This is only for the Classic with a Place in the Title category. It can be a country, a city, a street, or a building, but it must include the proper name of a place.
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 Belly of Paris). "
I've chosen Bleak House for the place name category. A great read.
ReplyDeleteI didn't plan Treasure Island for this prompt, I realized it fit about halfway through! Really enjoyed it! This makes me 6/12 for the challenge, and February's not even over yet. Who am I??
ReplyDeleteOh well done! And it could count for several categories if you need to change it!
DeleteTurns out I had it planned for 19th Century Classics and all my other planned reads were 20th, so guess what- I gotta change it on here hahaha! Haven't read anything for this challenge since, but I hope to get back to it soon! Got The Secret Garden lined up for May so!
DeleteI always think of The Secret Garden as Victorian, I forget that it was actually published later -- and that Burnett moved to America! I also recommend her The Shuttle, one of her novels for adults. They don't get much attention but are quite good.
DeleteGuess what I still haven't read ... woops, haha!
DeleteNorthanger Abbey. I enjoy this book every time I read it!
ReplyDeleteYou can never go wrong with Jane Austen! I'm listening to all her books again on audio as I walk the dog, they are very comforting.
DeleteMy choice J.B. Priestley's Black-Out in Gretley (1942) turned out to be a little too close to comfort as the world locks itself down.
ReplyDeleteI have not heard of this one, might have to wait until after the pandemic to read it! I recently read On the Beach by Nevil Shute and it was very bad timing, I should have known better.
DeleteWould Martian Chronicles fit for this category?! I've already used the genre one for Fahrenheit 451. If it doesn't count, it doesn't count. It won't be time wasted.
ReplyDeleteSure, why not? Mars is definitely the proper name of a place -- I hadn't thought of planets when I chose the category but it works for me!
DeleteThere were several subtleties to The Haunting of Hill House that have me intrigued.
ReplyDeleteI finally read The Red House Mystery for this prompt, and really enjoyed it!
ReplyDeleteI decided on a whim to read Dorothy Sayers' The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, then realized it would fit in this category. Yay! I think that makes 3 books in the mystery genre for this challenge, which is not necessarily my norm...but it has definitely been fun!
ReplyDeleteNow my favorite by the Brontë sisters
ReplyDeleteA Tree Grows in Brooklyn is on every book list I have been saying what an educated American is supposed to have read, but growing up in the UK I knew nothing about it. Now I have read it for this challenge I can understand why is called a Classic. A wonderful reading experience!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed Home to Harlem by Claude McKay, the most fun of the Harlem Renaissance novels I read.
ReplyDeleteI read Villette by Charlotte Bronte. I found it bland, especially compared to Jane Eyre, which is one of my favorite books.
ReplyDeleteI DID IT! Finished all 12 prompts! Finished up with Death on the Nile, as disappointing as it turned out to be.
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