This Week's Book Blogger Hop Question:
Name one classic novel you have always wanted to read. (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)
My Answer:
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1929). I guess it is more than 10 years I keep in mind this book and still did not come even close to it. It was a recommendation from our literature teacher and we were supposed to read it, but as additional book, so nobody did. But I still remember how she talked about it and it made me wanting to read it anyway.
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Once, four children called Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell lived all together in a village called Haworth in the very farthest , steepest, highest, northernest bit of England.My 56:
Charlotte's furious pace had dragged them all across the moors and into sooty Keighley streets early. The hay market gate clattered and echoed with horses and voices andOutline: I have heard a lot good things about this book, but I know literary nothing about the plot. The only this is obvious from the beginning the story is based on inspired by Bronte family.
smelled of many less wholesome things than hay, but no carriages waited there to collect two unhappy girls. Emily looked up to a bank's brassy clock tower. It wasn't near time for speeches yet.
Never read anything about Ernest Hemingway (but I'm not American so it isn't in our school curriculum, maybe that's why) but I'm like you. I've never read books that were an optional reading but I did read them after (1984 is one of them). Have a nice weekend!
ReplyDeleteI am not either, but it was an additional course in American literature, so I happily skipped it)))
DeleteI need to read some Hemingway!! Great pick!
ReplyDeleteMy BBH
Thank you.
DeleteI really liked The Glass Town Game. Hope you enjoy 😊
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I have high hopes for it!
DeleteFingers crossed that you’ll get to A Farewell to Arms one day. I’ve never read anything by Hemingway.
ReplyDeleteI've though everyone on Earth read something by Hemingway. Good, I am not alone))
DeleteI read an Ernest Hemingway novel a few years ago and I really didn't like it. I think it was a FAREWELL TO ARMS. Ugh. I didn't like his spare style at all. My Friday quotes
ReplyDeleteThat does not sound inspiring at all:-)
DeleteReading Hemingway isn't always easy, but he does offer something to think about. His down-to-earth style would really contrast to the wildly fantastical elements of The Glass Town Game.
ReplyDeleteHopefully, I will not read them together))
DeleteI've read A Farewell to Arms but don't remember one thing about it. It obviously didn't resonate with me. This week I am spotlighting Grave Destiny by Kalayna Price. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteSeems Hemingway is quite forgettable)
DeleteSounds like a wonderful story!! Happy weekend!
ReplyDeleteI might have to add this book to my tbr. :)
ReplyDeleteLauren @ Always Me
They say it's really good
DeleteHaven't seen this one before, but it looks as if it could be interesting and fun.
ReplyDeleteI like the description of The Glass Town Game: Haworth in the very farthest , steepest, highest, northernest bit of England.:)
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