pickI'm not sure why I own three copies of this book, since I've only just read it for the first time. I loved it. I expected to, but I loved it for all the ways it wasn't quite what I expected. Poor Amy gets a bad rap in the movie adaptations, but she ended up being a favorite of mine by the end. Of course, I loved them all and cried several times.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that‘s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . .And one fine morning-
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
#TheGreatGatsby #FScottFitzgerald #lastline #closingline #Classics #Fiction #School #HistoricalFiction #Romance #Literature #Novels #ReadForSchool 🧡🧡
I‘m so fickle. I think whichever Austen I‘m reading at the moment always becomes my favorite Austen all over again, until I pick up another 😂
pickI had only read Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' before (a fav), and I was worried going in that this would be a more serious & therefore drier read. I should have had more faith in his writing. While definitely more serious, this was just as engrossing & fascinating. His character descriptions are so detailed & you can't help but be drawn into the devastating story
#LGBTQ2024 published before 2000 @Kenyazero
#bookspin @TheAromaofBooks
May 1st 2020 - When #PemberLittens began our first Chapter a Day Readalong. You were a bright spot throughout the Pandemic. Wonderfully supportive after my house fire. I think of you every time I look at my shelf of Jane Austen books you sent me. 💙💙💙💙💙
panWe were forced to read this in high school, I found this book to be really depressing and overrated. Holden is hard to like because he hates everything and everyone, and he screws his life up one mistake after another, but didn‘t feel sorry for him. I read this book for school and got rid of it. It doesn‘t deserve to be a classic in my eyes.
The garden was fenced with stones on two sides, but in front there was an open fence, through which the flowers shone with answering gladness, as the four united people came within sight of them.
“O father,” said Eppie, what a pretty home ours is! I think nobody could be happier than we are.”
#SilasMarner #GeorgeEliot #lastline #closingline #book #books #Classics #Fiction #Literature #HistoricalFiction #19thCentury #Victorian #Novels #Classic ❣️❣️
pickI find it so fascinating that as I get older this is starting to become one of my favorite Austen‘s even though Fanny and I are nothing alike, and IRL as I get older I actually get less and less patient with persistent romantic advances, and probably wouldnt‘ve forgiven Edmund for his part in the whole “just give Henry a chance” campaign.
@IndoorDame so… most of my copies of this book are in a double or triple or all inclusive Bronte leather. These are my stand alones. I did have more but a girl we mentored loved this book so I gave her some copies. For students that have to read this for high school I always give them the puffin one that is purple, for me myself the Barnes & Noble dark green purple with yellow lettering is my favourite.
⬇️
