Cedricsmom’s Comments (group member since Jan 02, 2020)

Cedricsmom’s comments from the #ClassicsCommunity 2021 Reading Challenge group.

Getting through the first 2-3 chapters is a chore but it’s better after that.

I enjoyed the Master and Margarita a lot. I read it on a surface level. There’s a giant black cat that walks upright and talks, a flying witch, some beautiful writing, and all kinds of hi jinx. It’s a modern Russian classic.

@Neele 🤣🍷👍🏾😄

I might have to get in on this. Looks like scary fun!

I haven’t read either but I want to read both. Word on the street is that the Monk is quite salacious.

Well there’s always Alexander Dumas, Alexander Pushkin, Frederick Douglass, etc. What time period are you going for? Depending there on, you can find various authors of color.

I'm going to adapt Rincey Reads's strategy for 2021: Instead of making an annual goal, I'm making a quarterly goal. That makes more sense to me and seems easier to stay on track. That is all I know right now. Cheers!

I just commented that I don't think I can read it this time around. I've got 7 open books that I'm NOT reading already. I am back in a slump. Seems I can't turn off Netflix long enough to read anything. I would have to read all day long to get through 60 pages.

Yes! I do! Do you have a plan or are you winging it?

Li wrote: "It was a deep, comfortable room, with books lining the walls to the ceiling,the sort of room a man would move from never, did he live alone, solidchairs beside a great open fireplace, baskets for t..."

Yes, I think you are correct. It is an odd sentence construction, though. Sounds like something would say nowadays.

I never got around to reading Turn of the Screw, but I did watch the Netflix series, "Haunting of Bly Manor." So now I'm completely set up to be disappointed if the book doesn't measure up to the show, which of course the book could never do because the two media were created over 120 years apart. Shrug, sigh.

@Li. I think Remembrance of Things Past will keep you busy until the 2024 election.

@Li I think you will finish it long before we have a new president. If trump loses, he won’t concede so there’s going to be a battle. Be ready. That means have other books at hand. 😄

Shannon wrote: I wish they didn't publish Percy's additions to the book and just kept the manuscript as Mary had written it...."

I'm pretty sure this is contested. The first edition I'm reading is a Norton Critical Edition and I will see what the articles say about that. It's typical that a woman's creation would be credited to a man because after all she is *just* a woman.

Shannon wrote: "October or Spooktober as many call it is the perfect time for this gothic ghost story. Even better timing is the release on Oct. 9th of Netflix Haunting of Bly Manor which is based loosely off of t..."

Hi Shannon. I might read along on this one. It's fairly short so that helps. I've never read any Henry James so IDK what to expect.

I'm currently reading Frankenstein (both the 1st and 3rd editions) and it's so much better to read a classic with other folks to get their insights and inputs. It's more difficult alone.

Hi Gia! I just started Frankenstein last night, a perennial favorite. I’m listening to the audio book while I read along. The narrator voice gives it atmosphere.

I’m also reading Cold Comfort Farm, which is a 20th century classic. It’s very clever. I don’t know if I will be able to read more than that in a month. I’m still working.

I'll join in. I've wanted to read this book in forever, too. October it is!

If I recall correctly Mr. Cruncher beats his wife. Not funny. But those other sentences are pretty funny.

Asma wrote: "Oh yes, his daughter came and he gas been released now. It's getting interesting!"

That's what "recalled to life" means. On the first level anyway. And the most important level from the doctor's viewpoint :-)

Asma wrote: "Mr Manett has been 'recalled to life'?"

Didn't his daughter come and get him out of that garret where he was being held prisoner for 11 years? That's what it means--he was recalled to life when his daughter came and set him free from being dead to life as a prisoner.