Tuesday Tea: What literary classic have you been meaning to read? (And what's stopping you?)
No judgments, just curiosity
We’ve all got them — classic novels we keep meaning to read yet somehow remain on our TBRs.
Dave says...
For me, it’s Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time — and, of course, the thing preventing me from reading it is… time.
Mel says…
Last fall, I got the audiobook of George Eliot’s Middlemarch — read by my favorite narrator Juliet Stevenson — after reading this essay about how fantastic it is. Why haven’t I listened yet? It was Spooky Season, then Christmas, then SSoP Season 6 started… and here were are. It’s now on my TBR for November 1. Fingers crossed.
Last year on my birthday I found an old copy of the Tenant of Wildfell Hall at my favorite used bookstore. It's leatherbound, and from 1912, with an inscription of the original owners name on the cover page, and I got it for $7!!!
But, it feels so special and the onion skin pages feel so delicate that I'm almost afraid to read it, because what if I ruin it? So, I haven't yet. I think I may end up having to get a different copy for reading and that one can be my special really cool old book/ piece of history on my shelf that I just look at sometimes.
I have a beautiful edition of A Hundred Years of Solitude next to my bed that I've moved from room to room for years and have never opened.