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The Classics Club November Survey
I thought I’d participate in this month’s Classics Club question, which is actually 50 questions. It turns out that 50 questions is an awful lot of questions. Some might say too many questions, but I felt committed to finish once I’d started. It was a fun exercise, though. Share a link to your club list. My List of 50 classics. When did you join The Classics Club? How many titles have you read for the club? I joined on March 23, 2012 (wow, doesn’t feel that long ago) and have read 28 (plus one I haven’t written about yet), which puts me right on track for my end date of…
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The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Play premiered: 1895 (St James’s Theatre, London, England) Pages: 76 I love the dialogue in The Picture of Dorian Gray, but I started to drift during those few chapters in the middle that were all description. It makes sense then that I’d love Oscar Wilde’s plays, and I thought I’d start with his most popular work. Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection? This is an absurd comedy that revolves around two couples, their marriage proposals, and false identities. The readers (or audience…
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October in Review
Books Acquired: Jingo by Terry Pratchett Books Read: A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde More Fool Me by Stephen Fry Cannery Row by John Steinbeck I read more than I bought, so I consider that a good month. I also really enjoyed the books I finished, so that’s an even better month. There are quite a few unread Pratchett novels on my shelf already, but I like to read them in the order they were published for the most part, so I thought I’d pick up Jingo to unblock my Discworld progress. I then immediately…