I love to read. When I have the chance I can read a book a day. Most of the time life does not accommodate that however. When I am at home, working, trying to work out, blog and have time to sleep, the reading tends to wane a bit. However, I am always looking for new books to read and time to read them. Jess, one of the bloggers I follow, suggested Booksfree, where, like Netflix, you can get as many books as you want per month for a set fee. I personally usually just go to Goodwill and get the 50 cent paperbacks. I will read pretty much anything. When I travel I read whatever I can trade at the book exchanges, which are sometimes pretty slim pickings. To see some of the really bad books I have read over the last 6 months, you can go to my Goodreads page. I also just started using LibraryThing, which even lets you get free books to read as long as you do a thorough review.
What I really would like to do is try to read more classic books. Since I am traveling it has been really hard to get good books, or any books in English for that matter. Mr. Lovely bought a computer, so I decided to downloaded the Kindle for PC, which you can download to your computer (without having an actual Kindle) and then get FREE Classic (public domain) eBooks from Amazon which you can then read right on your computer. However, I have not really been doing it. It is a pain to open the computer just to read a book. I just haven’t done it.
In trying to find out what classics I should read, I found a list on the internet at the Cincinnati Library website to give me an idea of what I am missing and what I realized is I have actually read a few of these books, more than I thought I had. Out of the 40 odd books on this list, I think I have read 14.
Have you read any of these? What did you think? Do you have any you think should be added to this list? Which is your favorite? Do you have any book lovers tips?
That's so funny -- we're doing "rediscovering the classics" for our winter reading and discussion group! You know which one is my favorite....but I also loved To Kill a Mockingbird and both Steinbeck books. I read many of the titles on the list in school. Faulkner was interesting but HARD. Always wanted to read My Antonia, Ethan Frome, and A Tale of Two Cities. I think this list needs more diversity, though. Too many old white men. I've often thought of going back and reading all the Nobel Prize winners.
ReplyDeleteWe did a survey and the #1 book that everyone wanted to read was The Good Earth by Pearl Buck. I'm going to have to try it!
I am currently making my way through the Newbury Medal winners :-)
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I have read these:
ReplyDeleteThe Catcher in the Rye
Don Quixote
Ethan Frome
The Scarlet Letter
The Stranger (Karl made me read this)
But I read them all in High School.