My Favourite Classics

My favourite classics, in no particular order, are: 1. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, 1877 This was the first adult novel I ever read. I can’t even remember how old I was, but it seemed like an enormous book to me. I was perhaps six or seven. It was given to me by some relative because IContinue reading “My Favourite Classics”

30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-Three

Day Twenty-Three: Your favourite romance novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Technically, Jane Eyre is not a romance but a bildungsroman, a tale of moral growth from child to adulthood and overcoming the odds. But there is a fair amount of romance in it, in much the same way Pride and Prejudice is a comedyContinue reading “30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-Three”