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Jun 07, 2020 04:33AM
How did your classics reading go in May? Share what you've read here! What was your favorite? What was your least favorite?
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In May I read The Grapes of Wrath, Charlotte's Web, The Secret Garden, The Catcher in the Rye, and Agatha Christie's Crooked House. I enjoyed all of them except The Grapes of Wrath, which was very difficult to read because it was so heartbreaking. I'm glad I read it, though.
I finished North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell this month. 5 stars For me This year will be grand as far as classic reading is concerned, some are hefty classic.
I finished Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and read The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Both were great.
I finished Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel, Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Max Shulman’s The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.As might be imagined, I read them all for different reasons, so picking a favorite seems silly. Whenever anybody asks me what my favorite beer is, I give one of two answers. If I have a beer in my hand, the answer is, “The one in my hand.” Otherwise the answer is, “Something wonderful I’ve never had before.”
I read 16 books in May. More classics than usual. I read Alice in Wonderland, Milly Molly Mandy, and Peter Pan with my 6 year old daughter. I discovered another really fun children’s book on my own called Twig by Elizabeth Orton Jones. My daughter will love it, so I’ll probably read it to her soon. I’m listening to the Anne series for the first time and this month I listened to Anne’s House of Dreams. Other classics I read: The Bhagavad Gita, Lantern in Her Hand and sequel White Bird Flying, Oliver Twist, and Winnie the Pooh.
Oh favorites? As I said, Twig was very cute and a good surprise. Lantern is one of my very favorites. I read it for the first time about a year ago and have read it 2 more times since then. It’s a sad, heart breaking read, but it’s also hopeful and beautiful and has beautiful messages. Abbie Deal is like a mentor to me because of the amazing things she says. The sequel was very different. Much lighter, but still beautiful. And of course Dickens is always good.
