The Classics Club – How Am I Doing?

13/10/2013, CelineNyx, Events , 9

About six and a half month ago, I started with the Classics Club. I challenged myself to read fifty classics in three years, keeping track of the list on my blog. Now, it’s been half a year. Am I on schedule to complete the challenge?

To finish my fifty books in exactly three years, I should have read eight books by now. I actually already managed to read ten off my list. So I’m doing great! However, I did almost exclusively read shorter novels – the long ones on my list are still there, including some scary 1000 page tomes.

Although I didn’t like some of the Classics Club books I read like Robinson Crusoe, I actually got a surprisingly high amount of five-star reads out of this.

Here are the books I read so far:

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Hamlet by Shakespeare
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus (review will appear on the 22nd)

And these are the books I hope to finish next:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë – I’m almost finished with this one, although I’m not yet sure of my thoughts about it. On one hand I liked it, but on the other it didn’t keep me very engaged, and it took me several months to get through.
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri – Not nearly as far along in The Divine Comedy. It’s very hard to read, although I do like reading about hell and Virgil.
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes – A lot easier to read, but SO LONG! Hoping to make a substantial dent into this one during fall break.

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