That's a Classic!

Alrighty, I haven't written in a very long time. I feel like that is how I start every post, but I just always end up having big gaps between posts! I have been reading like a crazy person because I am trying to catch up with my goal of 100 books in 1 year on goodreads. I am still 7 books behind... but I know I can do it this year! I finished the first 5 books of The Green Mile so I only need to read one more. I read the first book of Septimus Heap, Magyk. I finished Pride and Prejudice. Last night I finished City of Lost Souls (WOW!). Oh my gosh, still so much to read. I'm in the middle of Bitterblue, book 3 in the Graceling Realm series, and I am reading Green Mile: Coffey On The Mile (part 6) and finally, I started reading The Devil Wears Prada. We'll see how that turns out.
I'll try to do a couple of quick reviews. I assume you all know the story of Pride and Prejudice, wirtten by Jane Austen? Well, I had never actually read it. I kept avoiding it and avoiding it because I thought it was too hard. I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith instead and I loved it! But finally for English this year I decided I would muddle through it, if only to say that I had.
Oh wow, I loved it. Somehow I had been totally oblivious to that amazing element of romance (I know, only by being an idiot or just resistant to reading the book could do that to me). I was caught up in all of it, and I was reading avidly every night, wanting to know if Darcy and Elizabeth could make it work, even when I knew how it ended! And I got all girl-who-is-watching-the-end-of-a-romantic-comedy giddy about the last few chapters. I felt like melting when it got romantic. And after a while, I hardly noticed the writing style and I understood it all perfectly. This is truly a classic that I will always love.


Rating: 4/5
Also, I read Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. This one was A LOT harder to get through than Pride and Prejudice, but there was a reason I was able to get through it: have any of you seen the movie She's the Man? Well, that is the story of Twelfth Night. Twin brother and sister get split up, sister dresses up as a boy, meets the Duke as his serving boy, Duke goes after the super cute Olivia, twin sister (Viola) gets mega jealous as she has fallen in love with the Duke, everything goes to crap. Or something like that. I love the movie, so I decided to read the play, and let me tell you, my advanced knowledge of Twelfth Night helped me by a million percent to understand the play. I'm not saying it all suddenly came to me like Shakespeare was speaking like a 21st century teenager, but I found myself understanding a lot more.
Another big help was reading the full breakdown of the play on Shmoop.com and I related back to it every now and then if I got lost. I have decided I can really enjoy reading Shakespeare, so long as I have lots of access to things that help me to understand it! Anyway, I really loved this classic too!


Rating: 4/5