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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
When people quiz me about “what I’ve read,” this is always the book that surprises them most, when it makes it to my “no, I haven’t read that” list (along with every other classic!) Apparently they...
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Over the Christmas weekend I read A Christmas Carol for the first time in my life. We all know the story: a miserly man in Victorian England is introduced to three ghosts (not including the ghost of...
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Post Contains Spoilers - My summary of Wuthering Heights: At a blustery house on the moors in 1801, a shadowed man of nearly forty, known only as ‘Heathcliff’, greets his bumbling renter, Mr....
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A Christmas Carol – complete (reread)
This is just a quick note to say that Mom and I finished reading Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol tonight for Christmas Eve. (An experiment in reading aloud.) We traded off every three pages, and as...
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Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey is a work of literary realism, something that (I believe) was very new in the nineteenth century. The book is a look at the role of a nineteenth century governess in a churning British...
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Okay, I liked these books! I didn’t really understand them, but I liked them. In the first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice falls down a hole while chasing a ‘very, very late’ rabbit and...
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Villette by Charlotte Brontë
So, I finished this book WEEKS ago. My second novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was not like Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is sweeping, romantic, funny in places — and while Villette contained humor and had the...
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Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
I didn’t like this novel when I started reading it. I found it too dark, too cryptic. Ugh – villains in hide-outs, a sugary-sweet Oliver (the orphan) and a series of events that simply depress an...
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A Christmas Carol & Other Christmas Books by Charles Dickens
I finished reading this collection yesterday with my mother. We spent most of December reading it aloud and finished the last story after New Years. It was so much fun! This volume includes A Christmas...
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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
I finished this novel a couple weeks ago and have been waiting to see the movie before I discuss. (For no particular reason. I just wanted to wait and see it on film.) Tonight I watched the 1980...
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
This book was a page-turner, for me. I loved Agnes Grey, but I love this book even more! Anne Brontë! Is straightforward, realistic, no-nonsense, and yet clearly believes in love. Is it just me, or...
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Emma: A Fragment by Charlotte Brontë
I’m really excited to get back to Charlotte! I read Anne Bronte’s final novel recently, and while I loved it and love Anne’s work, I have been missing Charlotte. I adore Villette and treasure Jane...
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