Showing posts with label classics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classics. Show all posts

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Confessions. . .

You may have noticed that I added Wuthering Heights in my "Good Books I've read recently". I lied. . . Not about reading the book - I read it for my book club (we're all still scratching our heads over that selection). I lied about the fact that I thought it was good. I didn't. Sorry. This is a very un-librarian thing to admit. It's true, I did not like the book. Finishing it was a bit like finishing the marathon, brutal, but I was SO proud of myself when I read that last sentence and put the book down - I had made it!! Further confessions (this will give you some clue as to the caliber of our club): Our "president" did not even finish the book and the average rating (on a scale of 1-10) was a 3. Our discussion was good, most of us were glad we had read it (there are lots of literary references to this book and now we know what people are referring to. . .), but not many of us understood what makes this book a classic. Any ideas???

Our next month's selection:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows