And once again the shame I feel for not having read a lot of classics falls upon me. There are three books in particular I feel I ought to read: Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho.
I feel I ought to read Great Expectations because I keep getting it mixed up with Jane Eyre. As I understand it, they are totally different stories but both feature a mad old lady (Miss Havisham and doodlesquat's wife... Mrs Rochester).
Jane Eyre I know I've wanted to read for a long time because I wanted to be one of very few people who have read Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea (its prequel) before Jane Eyre itself. I read Wide Sargasso Sea about a decade ago (so long ago I've forgotten what happens), but for reasons I can't remember I never got around to reading Jane Eyre. Another reason I want to read Jane Eyre (and more classics in general) is to understand the jokes in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next books.
And American Psycho—I started reading this and got about three chapters in (liked it, wanted to keep going), then my sister, who owned the book, lent it to a friend of hers. Before she got it back she had moved to Canberra and I have never had enough motivation to borrow it from the library (is it banned?) or buy it since.
There you have it, the shame.
Day 24 – A book that you wish more people would’ve read
Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most
Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something
Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending
Day 28 – Favourite title
Day 29 – A book everyone hated but you liked
Day 30 – Your favourite book of all time
I'd like to thank Sarah Jansen for her tweet about this, as well as The Literary Gothamite and Confessions of a Book Lush for the good idea.
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