Most of you know that I am an avid reader. I like to read anything that I can get my hands on - chick lit, magazines, the toothpaste tube. You name it, I like to read it. However, I came to the realization that even though I love to read, I am a fraud. I have shelves upon shelves of the books that I have read over the last year and a half and none of them are classic, literary works. So I decided to change that. Right before I went home for vacation, I decided to pick up a classic. I realized that I have never read "A Tale of Two Cities", "Wuthering Heights", anything of Jane Austen or any other classics that weren't assigned to me to read by a teacher.
So I picked up "Pride and Prejudice". I will admit that the main reason for reading it is because I really want to see the movie and felt I should read the book first so I knew what was going on. I love it. It's such a wonderful read. I wouldn't have been able to appreciate the writing had this book been assigned to me to read. It has completely sucked me in. It's my new subway read. I would imagine that I'll complete it in the next two days. I love the language, I love the picture that it paints. Oh to be alive in old-school England!
So this is how I am passing my time until my husband returns from Houston on Saturday...
1 comment:
Dude! One of the big reasons why I stopped buying books is because I'd have all these really embarrassing books on my shelf and people would come over and snicker. If it makes you feel any better, I checked out Pamela Anderson's Star from the library. I haven't read any Austen, but I loved the movie Clueless, which was supposedly based on one of them, right?
:) Glad you are posting more! Glad you made it back from TX ok! Glad you are healed from your crazy illness!
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