It has been several
months since the project started. I've been enjoying the Club and
things in it immensely. The readalongs, the memes, the people, the
reviews, and many other things. As a new blogger, reading and
enjoying others' review and joining readalongs has been such a great
experience.
I've read 9 books from
my list this far. For the last few months, Dumas has been dominating
my choices, that among 9, 3 of them are actually Dumas'. Those are
The Count of Monte Cristo, my
favourite, The Three Musketeers,
which title is actually misleading because it doesn't count
D'Artagnan as one of them, and Twenty Years After, its
sequel. Even now I still find it hard to move from those novels to
others I've never touched.
The
other six are John Milton's Areopagitica,
Stevenson's Treasure Island,
Solzhenitsyn's Ivan Denisovich
(I know I must make a review, but later, please), Sir Walter Scott's
Ivanhoe, Pyle's
compiled ballads of Robin Hood, and Leroux's Phantom of theOpera.
As
for the other books, I'm reading the book of Nehemiah in the Bible
now, in order to complete it soon. The last book I read from Aeneid
was Book IV, but I think I'd rather read it in a readalong. Reading
alone makes it harder to understand what it says. Starting this
month, I will be reading Les Miserables
through October and November. And for Historical Fiction Challenge byHobbyBuku, I will read Vicomte the Bragelonne from
Dumas as well (for the sake of Athos). For the same event perhaps I
will add Sabatini's Captain Blood to
the list.
I've
been enjoying also the Weekend Quotes. By doing that I remind myself
what lesson I can learn from the books that I read. I also love
participating in Fanda's Character Thursdays. My choice of characters
may not vary a lot, but I still love to look deeper into the
characters, protagonists as well as antagonists. I also love to
exploring the use of coat-of-arms in literatures. Though I'm no
expert in the matter, I like to learn the blazoning of each to
understand better those mentioned in the novels I read.
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You have read great books so far! Thanks for joining me in Character Thursdays... And I begin to enjoy Weekend Quote although I can't promise to always find a good quote to share every weekend. But those memes help me to explore the richness of classics. Now i can't wait to read Beloved with you! :)
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