Welcome to Litsy!

I finished my Modern Library Classics Challenge for this month. Its surprisingly good. The name “Silas Lapham“ is much more old-fashioned than the book it's attached to, and I think that name probably dissuades people from reading it.

With its sense of humor, love farce, and social-climbing it reminded me of Bridgerton (the TV show - I've not read the book). So, maybe not for everyone, but I enjoyed it.

Full review: https://tinyurl.com/59pyry3y

1. Yes!! I have my own classic book challenge this year (one a month from my Modern Library collection). Tagged is this month's read.

2. I'll answer with a very old classic. I've had Seamus Heaney's trans. of Beowulf forever, & I've still not read it. Did read Sioned Davies trans. of The Mabinogion last year. Loved it. But poor Beowulf keeps getting buried on my TBR.

Thanks @TiminCalifornia for tagging me.

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One of the few books I was required to read in high school that I actually enjoyed - I even saved my copy from high school! The characters -- including the titular Silas Lapham -- are all certainly flawed, but remain sympathetic and human even though they are part of the problems of the Gilded Age being critiqued by the author.