All in all, I’m glad I read it (well, listened to it, but I think it still counts as reading), but I can’t say it’ll ever be a real favorite.
Continue readingLorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
Category: Classics Club
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
This story is about oppression, double standards, and the cruelty of pitting strict social rules against the realities of nature. Tess Durbeyfield is essentially a sacrifice to the small god of Victorian values and progress.
Continue readingDragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
I love, love, love all the thought that went into building the world of Pern. It’s not just a nice map and a complicated political system — although those things are certainly important. The entire world has its own backstory that invites the reader’s curiosity.
Continue readingA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
I’m afraid I don’t have much to say about this story, which is too bad because I think that it really does deserve all the praise it has garnered over the years.
Continue readingNorth and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
TBH, getting through this novel was such a chore.
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