I'm in a list making kind of mood so I thought I'd start making random fve lists. Sometimes they'll be bookish other weeks not so much. This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic was about books we were assigned to read. That got me thinking about some of the books I was assinged to read as a teenager that I'd really like to reread. I'm sure my perspective now would be pretty different than it was when I was a teenager.
1. Tess of the D'Urbevilles by Thomas Hardy - I remember this being so sad and I remember loving the writing style. It was probably one of my favorite assigned reading books. I wonder what I would think of it now.
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - At 15 I liked the romance but was bored senseless by all the rest. I'd like to give this another try and see what I think now.
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - If I remember right this was the last book we had to read in my senior English class. I read it and it stuck in my head long enough to take the test and write the paper and then promptly disappeared. I'd really love to reread this one.
4. The Awakening by Kate Chopin - I remember liking this and it is one that stuck with me but I think it would hit a bit different if I read it now.
5. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - I remember almost nothing about it because I read it the very last semester of high school and I had a severe case of senioritis. I've heard interesting things about this one and would like to read it as an adult - maybe read it after I reread Jane Eyre?
What books were assigned reading in school that you'd like to reread now?
I really liked The Awakening when I first read, but I was in my 20s then so it had more of an impact on me than I think it would now. And Tess of the D'urbervilles is such a beautiful and sad story. That was my introduction to Thomas Hardy. The classic I think I'd like to reread next year is A Separate Peace. :D
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great selection of books.
ReplyDeleteI'd not want to reread Tess ever again! I guess I don't like sad. Jane Eyre I might but again rather dark. I haven't read the others. Will look forward to seeing what you read with these and what you think now.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read most of these, but I suppose I would read Jane Eyre again. If I had to choose classics to reread, though, most of them would be children's classics, with Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, and The Secret Garden topping the list. Of course, if you include plays in classics, I could find 5 to reread just in Shakespeare's works alone!
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