The Classics Club: A Confessional Post

The Classics Club

I was just visiting JoAnn's blog, Lakeside Musing, and was reminded by one of her posts that I had (once upon a time) joined The Classics Club. On March 16, 2012 to be exact. Have I read any books from that list? No. Did I even remember that I had made this commitment? Obviously not or I wouldn't be writing this confessional post. Sooo ...

I have until March 2017 to read through my list. At this point I will be pleased to read at least some of the wonderful classics from this list. I've been terribly neglectful at reading classics lately. I've also been terribly neglectful of my blog and my BookTube (YouTube) channel. While I find it difficult to do all that is required to make videos about my reading and books (prepping, set up, editing, uploading, etc.), there is really no reason for me not to blog. I like writing! I should be writing! Sooo ...

I will try to do two things in the coming year (2015):

1. Read some of the books from my Classics Club list
2. Write and post to my blogs (I still maintain Tip of the Iceberg which is meant to be personal essays)

I could use all of the encouragement y'all can send my way. I am VERY out of practice and disconnected from blogging.

MY LIST:

1. Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women (reread)
2. Arabian Nights, The (trans. Muhsin Mahdi)
3. Ariosto, Ludovico - Orlando Furioso
4. Austen, Jane - Sense and Sensibility
5. Barnes, Julian - Flaubert's Parrott
6. Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney)
7. Bradley, Marion Zimmer - The Mists of Avalon (reread)
8. Bronte, Anne - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
9. Bulgakov, Mikhail - The Master and Margarita (reread)
10. Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden
11. Campbell, Joseph - The Hero with a Thousand Faces (reread)
12. de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
13. Cheever, John - Oh What a Paradise It Seems
14. Colette - Cheri
15. Collins, Wilkie - The Haunted Hotel
16. Collins, Wilkie - Miss or Mrs?
17. Dickens, Charles - Great Expectations
18. Dickens, Charles - David Copperfield (reread)
19. Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
20. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Brothers Karamazov (trans. Pevear & Volokhonsky)
21. Durrell, Lawrence - Justine (Alexandria Quartet)
22. Durrell, Lawrence - Balthazar (Alexandria Quartet)
23. Durrell, Lawrence - Mountolive (Alexandria Quartet)
24. Durrell, Lawrence - Clea (Alexandria Quartet)
25. Forster, E.M. - Howard's End
26. Forster, E.M. - The Longest Journey
27. Forster, E.M. - A Passage to India (reread)
28. Forster, E.M. - Where Angels Fear to Tread (reread)
29. Gaskell, Elizabeth - Cranford
30. Gaskell, Elizabeth - North and South
31. Hardy, Thomas - The Mayor of Casterbridge
32. Homer - The Odyssey (reread)
33. Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables
34. Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With the Wind
35. Polidori, John - The Vampyre
36. Radcliffe, Anne - The Mysteries of Udolpho
37. Spenser, Edmund - The Faeire Queene
38. Stendhal - The Red and the Black
39. Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
40. Thackeray, William Makepeace - Vanity Fair
41. Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina (trans. Pevear & Volokhonsky) (reread)
42. Trollope, Anthony - Barchester Towers
43. Trollope, Anthony - The Warden
44. Twain, Mark - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
45. Verne, Jules - Journey to the Centre of the Earth
46. Virgil - The Aeneid (reread)
47. Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence
48. Wharton, Edith - Ethan Frome
49. Woolff, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway
50. Woolff, Virginia - A Room of One's Own (reread)