Sierramist88

I finished Anna Karenina and I really liked it, considering how long it was. I didn’t really understand what the author was trying to say about Anna though, whether he meant the reader to sympathize with her or not. He seems to blame the men in the book for her unhappy ending. Now I am reading The Once and Future King and I really like it so far! It’s interesting to read and the author is very witty at times. =-)

I read Brideshead Revisited and it kind of depressed me. I didn’t like it that much. I think I was just in a downer state when I read it so it affected my opinion of it. Now I am reading Anna Karenina. I haven’t gotten very far so I don’t have much of an opinion about it yet.

I finished the Mysteries of Udolpho. It was long and tedious. I have since then read The Last of the Mohicans, Oroonoko, Never Let Me Go, Beloved, Like Water for Chocolate, and North and South. (I know; I haven’t logged on in a while.) The Last of the Mohicans was hard to get into, but I felt really sad and emotional after reading Never Let Me Go, as well as Beloved. They were both very moving. I didn’t like Like Water for Chocolate very much, because it was hard for me to sympathize with the main character’s unyielding love for Pedro. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell made my heart skip a beat—I would compare it to Pride and Prejudice, if that’s even possible. I loved North and South.