Here’s a space to tell the club what you’re currently reading. You’re welcome to use the comments below.
No pressure, of course! But if you’re feeling social, here’s a space to tell us about your latest classic. As always, you are of course welcome to leave a link to your blog if you prefer to share there.
Twitter hashtag: #ccreadingupdate
– The Club
The Classics Club 
I’ve been rereading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Also I finished reading Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth this week. I started reading both books back in March and it feels great to finally get them finished.
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Just finished reading Wuthering Heights for the first time with all of its morbid complexities. Glad I read it, may never read it again, but glad I read it this once. Clicky the link above if you want all my musings. Also, I love comments! 🙂
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As I am not a monogamous reader, I’ve several books going right now. Middlemarch by George Eliot and The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, along with a (not classic) mystery for lighter reading. Middlemarch has taken my attention more than I expected, which is a pleasant surprise!
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Hi! I’m reading Classical Women Poets edited by Josephine Balmer. Also, I’m reading The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf so I can participate in heavenali’s #Woolfalong this month. The novel is really enjoyable so far. Woolf’s prose makes you feel as if you are on the ship with her characters. Their awkward interactions and private thoughts about each other are brilliantly described.
I recently finished my post on the two translations of Sappho’s poetry that I read for the Women’s Classic Literature Event: http://canonofonesown.com/2016/04/06/starting-with-sappho/
While I was reading Sappho’s song, I came across a great book called Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward by Ruth Salvaggio. I hope to finish it this month.
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I’m currently reading Wuthering Heights, which I’ve never read before. It’s . . . interesting, to say the least. I’m not sure it’s really a book that you love because it doesn’t seem to fall into that type of category. But it is enlightening.
Here’s my first post of thoughts for it.
http://bookcasesanddaydreams.blogspot.com/2016/04/on-reading-emily-brontes-wuthering.html
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I really liked your review. I wholeheartedly agree with you about Cathy and Heathcliffe. My friends used to go into raptures about how romantic their love story is. When I was in my early twenties I finally read Wuthering Heights and was flabbergasted. Wuthering Heights may be a late Romantic novel, but it is not a romantic novel. I kept wishing that Cathy and Heathcliffe would get together just to spare the innocent bystanders.
You made an intriguing point about Nelly’s reliability as a narrator. Now I have to rethink everything I thought I knew about the characters and their story. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
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Thank you! And I totally know what you mean about Cathy and Heathcliff. If they’d been together than the collateral damage would have at least been limited. I’m about halfway through the novel, Cathy’s just died, and I just cringe knowing it’s about to get worse, if that was even possible. This is not my idea of a high romance, yet at the same time, I’m glad that I’m reading it. There’s a lot of intriguing lessons about human nature to be gleaned and that I like.
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Right in the middle of The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells. I’d be finished by now, but I can’t read it at night!
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I’ve just finished New Grub Street by George Gissing, here’s a link to my review:
http://karensbooksandchocolate.blogspot.com/2016/03/new-grub-street-by-george-gissing.html
Only eight more books on my Classics Club list and I’m finished! Don’t know what I’m reading next. The Hunchback of Notre Dame was my Spin pick and I’m dreading it.
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I’ve just finished the second Flambards book and have started reading Crossriggs by Jane and Mary Findlater.
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Just an update: today I reached the 4 year milestone! Here is my round up post for the last year: https://thebookwormchronicles.wordpress.com/2016/03/19/the-classics-club-four-years-gone/
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Here is my review of The Secret Garden – https://bookmouseblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/the-secret-garden-by-frances-hodgson-burnett/. I haven’t finished my review for Mansfield Park yet.
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I just finished Mansfield Park by Jane Austen and The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett! I loved them both!
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I didn’t appreciate Mansfield Park when I first read it about 12 years ago but enjoyed it so much more when I read it again last year.
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I guess that leaves hope for me that I may enjoy it as well. I didn’t much like Mansfield Park the first time I read it either. 😉
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I’m reading Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and really enjoying it.
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I have started reading ‘Ivanhoe’ by Sir Walter Scott and am enjoying it even more than I did (if that is possible) as a youngster. I shall post a review shortly.
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I really enjoyed Ivanhoe 🙂 I listened to it as an audiobook about six months ago on my drive to and from work. I added it to my 100 Books to Read Before You Die list! Here’s my review of it – https://bookmouseblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/11/ivanhoe-by-sir-walter-scott/
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I’ve ‘liked’ your review. Here is mine
https://bookheathen.wordpress.com/2016/03/17/ivanhoe/
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I just finished “Pilgrim’s Progress” and have a history in progress, “The Scotch-Irish: A Social History”.
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Still blogging through The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. This book is so rich and insightful that it deserves a study group 🙂 !
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Cicero, “On Old Age” Will be starting Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” in two weeks.
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After reading the epic David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, I am now enjoying the much lighter children’s classic Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit 🙂
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I have finally started reading “The Woman in White” by Wilkie Collins. I had it in paper back but the text was soooo small, I could not read it. This time I am on my iPad. I read this book for two challenges; ‘What’s in a Name’ and I can probably fit it into ‘The Scavenger Hunt’ gold edition! It is also om my Classic list as number 2! I just love when I can combine several challenges!
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Woman in White was my spin selection this month. I just loved it. I thought it was a real page turner. I still have to write a review, but I don’t know when that is going to happen. Lol
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Just started ‘The Remains of the Day’ by Ishiguro. Just finished ‘Dombey & Son’ by Dicken’s
& ‘ Brideshead Revisited’ by Waugh: http://journey-and-destination.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/a-twitch-upon-threadbrideshead.html
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Remains of the Day is wonderful! Just absolutely breathetaking! Hope you enjoy the book!
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Thank you – it’s so very English!
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Thank you! I’m sure I will – it’s so English – sort of a cross between Jane Austen & Downtown Abbey.
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I have just started John McGahern’s Booker prize nominated Amongst Women – a bit too soon to give first impressions but will blog about it later in the week – it’s quite short.
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