Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen My rating: 5 of 5 stars I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I love Jane Austen. I love her work. I am a self-proclaimed Janeite. I wrote my graduate thesis on Austen’s six major novels and a term paper on NorthangerAbbey. I have to admit, Northanger Abbey is my absolute favourite. The satire, the gothic, Austen’s humour and her ability to create a naïve character without making her annoying is quite the accomplishment. I adore Catherine’s evolution from a sheltered country girl to being thrown into the fashionable society of Bath. The characters in…
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Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf My rating: 5 of 5 stars Part of BBC’s “100 Stories that shaped the World” list, I thought it would be fun to keep track of all the works I have read that are listed.My first conscious experience with the great Virginia Woolf’s works (previous to this novel was an excerpt of A Room of One’s Own for a class I took; I wish I could have read it in its entirety back then). As so often with classic British literature, this novel was assigned reading for an undergrad English course I took about 9 years ago. I can’t remember the name of the course,…
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë My rating: 5 of 5 stars Part of BBC’s “100 Stories that shaped the World” list, I thought it would be fun to keep track of all the works I have read that are listed.I have read Jane Eyre twice. The first time was 11 years ago and required for my intro to English Literature undergraduate course and the second time about 7 years ago part of a little book club I have with my husband. I remember getting into this heated discussion with him about the characters etc. I’m not sure what conclusion we drew, but it felt more like a truce and an…
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen My rating: 5 of 5 stars Part of BBC’s “100 Stories that shaped the World” list, I thought it would be fun to keep track of all the works I have read that are listed.When I found out that Rosamund Pike read Pride and Prejudice for Audible, I got extremely excited and signed up for a subscription just so that I could listen to it.I loved her in the 2005 movie production as Jane Bennett and listened to this version with delight. Pike’s performance and interpretation of the various characters had me chuckle in public. I adored her version of Mr. Collins and Mary…
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë My rating: 2 of 5 stars Part of BBC’s “100 Stories that shaped the World” list, I thought it would be fun to keep track of all the works I have read that are listed.During the last decade or so I read this story 3 times and I can say with absolute certainty that the third time definitely felt like a chore. I had to force myself to go to my local university’s library (not that I don’t like libraries) at 8 in the morning, with a packed lunch and a double shot cappuccino for two-and-a-half days to make it through this book. I had…
