'That Book You Should Have Read Ages Ago' - 2014

[Laura]

Holly wrote: "I'm planing on finally getting round to reading Wuthering Heights. I've started it multiple times and have never finished it."

Holly, Wuthering Heights is what I am reading in Sept as one of my Classics. It is also one of my 5 books to read this year and one that I never got around to reading when I was younger, so looks like you have a "buddy" for this read!

[Renee, Mistress of the Mini-Challenge]

Great crush story, Camille! I love vintage books, too! <3 AND your husband sounds like a sweetie!

Wuthering Heights! How exciting ladies! I hope you won't mind a little eavesdropping on my part. :D

[Holly, That Geeky One]

More the merrier, Renee! And your additions to the discussion are always fascinating!

[Overbooked ✎]

I did it, I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns, I can't believe I didn't read this book sooner, the mini challenge definitely worked for me, yay!

[Holly, That Geeky One]

I'm glad the challenge helped you so much!!

[Overbooked ✎]

thanks Holly!

[sonya]

I want to finish the stand by stephen king

[Renee, Mistress of the Mini-Challenge]

I enjoyed the Percy Jackson books, Sean. I think you'll like them.

Kiwi-
Hooray for finishing Splendid Suns!

[Melissa]

Finished Beer in the Snooker Club! Yah!!!!

[Laura]

I finished Wuthering Heights. It was a chore. Didn't like the characters which made me dislike the book.

[Melissa]

Laura wrote: "I finished Wuthering Heights. It was a chore. Didn't like the characters which made me dislike the book."

I thought the book was a chore to read, too. It might be the awful characters and the dreary setting.

[Renee, Mistress of the Mini-Challenge]

I'll "third" that. Wuthering Heights was pretty miserable. I think most people think of the movie with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon when the call it a great romance. Creepy, creepy stuff.

[Melissa]

Iasa wrote: "How was it Melissa?"

Beer and the Snooker Club was an just an OK read. You had a young man whose chief interests were reading, drinking, gambling, and making love. And he was in love with his relative's money and friends money, so they could keep him in drinking and gambling money. He was diverted awhile, but then he got back on track to what was important to him (drinking and money). It was interesting from a point of view from the culturally rich in the 1950's, when Egyptians were experimenting with communism and other radical extremist groups now known to us today.

[Renee, Mistress of the Mini-Challenge]

Wow. With that title I didn't know what to expect, but it wasn't that! Lol.

[Melissa]

Right!

[Melissa]

Sandy, the book wasn't awful, it was more in the middle. The book that was a chore to read was Wuthering Heights, Snooker Club was about rich Egyptian kids figuring themselves out in the 50's. They liked to drink, gamble, mingle with the opposite sex all at their Club. Kind of like a society club. They were also figuring out their politics, between Muslim Brotherhood and Communism and others.