The 2021 Classics Challenge

[Gemini]

Oma, I read others in between and start a classic when I feel like it

[Gemini]

Time for another classic, so I have started Howard's End.

[Gemini]

I have finished Howards End.
I will give it 3 and a half.
Not sure what my next classics read will be.

[Daisy]

Gem - was that out of 10? If so, I won't bother to read it.

Well done, though you are getting through your list and meeting your challenge every month.

[Gemini]

No, it's out of 5 🙂

[Daisy]

Ahhh, that's better!

[Gemini]

These are my ratings so far Daisy

I am going to rate my classic reads out of 5.

1. REBECCA - by Daphne Du Maurier (5)
2. WUTHERING HEIGHTS - by Emily Bronte (2)
3. OLIVER TWIST - by Charles Dickens(5)
4. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - by Jane Austen (3)
5. ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - by Lucy Maude Montgomery (5)
6. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE - by JD Salinger (2)
7. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - by Harper Lee (5)
8. HOWARDS END - by EM Forster(3.5)
9. SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS - by Arthur Ransome(4)
10 . A CHRISTMAS CAROL - by Charles Dickens(5)
11. FRANKENSTEIN - by Mary Shelley(4)
12. TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN - by Philippa Pearce (5)
13. WIDE SARGASSO SEA - by Jean Rhys (3.5)

[Gemini]

I'm still slightly ahead of my intention to read a classic a month this year, but I haven't read one for a while.
Middlemarch will be my next.

[Daisy]

Gem - I remember reading Middlemarch at school and enjoying it. We had a really good teacher for Eng Lit and she also talked about Mary Anne Evans and how difficult it was for women to be taken seriously as authors in those days - hence her pen name - and also her personality and views on society of the time. She was way ahead of her era and lead an interesting and unusual life.

This was about the only teacher at school who talked to us about 'real' things instead of the accepted mores of the late 1950s!

[Gemini]

Daisy, it's wonderful to have teacher like that who stays in your memory.
We had an English teacher, Mrs Atkinson, who had four children, two sons and two daughters (which was my ideal family at that time!) She told us little snippets of family life, was kind and interesting and was loved by all. I loved the years that she was my English teacher.

[Daisy]

Gem - that's so true. Most of our teachers were very dry, academics, elderly (to us) women who never deviated from their subjects. Then in the 4th form we had a new classics teacher - a young man with a glamorous young wife, and he was our form tutor! We all loved him to bits.

[Gemini]

I'm really struggling with Middlemarch. It doesn't help that I can see it is really long!

I know it is a good book and I want to enjoy it. It's not doing it for me at the moment though, so it is set aside for me to read things I enjoy.

I will get back to it in time!

[Daisy]

Gem - perhaps Middlemarch is a winter read - some books are better curled up with a glass of wine on a dark and stormy evening.

[Gemini]

Good thinking Daisy! I have A Christmas Carol for my December read, so I think I will leave Middlemarch for November.

[Daisy]

Gem - that's good planning ahead.