September saw the start of me traveling for work and thus getting worried that I wouldn't be able to make it through as many books, but I still made it through 3! Not gonna lie, I was pretty pleased!
First was a classic I had read many years ago, but had forgotten the details of so figured it was time to take it up again. This would be Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. When people saw that's what I was reading a lot were taken aback and almost made me question wanting to read it again. But I'm happy I did. It's good! Granted, I never quite connect with some of these classic novels where the dream guy is in fact rather brute or rude. At least this time the guy shows more kindness and attention to her. I liked Jane's calmness and rational thinking though!
Next up was The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I enjoyed Brown's other books, and a friend mentioned this one was also really great. Oddly it brought a fun memory where a girl came up to me at a college fair years ago looking for noetic science (which is highlighted in this novel) and when I asked what that was she seemed annoyed and said something along the lines of "it's from the new Dan Brown novel!!!" However now I'm ready! The end kindof dragged for me as the 'bad guy' had been taken care of and the rest just tied up a little bit about Mason symbols, but I still enjoy the rabbit hole Brown takes people down with conspiracies, symbolism, and action. Plus this one takes place in DC which I appreciate since it's a place I've actually been. It always shocks me though when you realize his books pretty much just take place over a few hours or a day!
Lastly I read Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Surprisingly I had never read this before! Which is a bit disappointing because I enjoyed it! Who doesn't like a book about an adorable little boy who suddenly finds himself thrown from rags to riches but still remains just as kind and generous as he was before. I do appreciate good manners and thinking of others.
Books Read in 2014:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Burned by Ellen Hopkins
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
A Grief Observed by CS Lewis
The Monument Men by Robert Edsel
The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Beer
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass Isak Dinesen
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Looking for Alaska by John Green
When Life Comes Undone by TJ Addington
Number the Stars by Lois Lowery
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Where There's Smoke by Jodi Picoult
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
First was a classic I had read many years ago, but had forgotten the details of so figured it was time to take it up again. This would be Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. When people saw that's what I was reading a lot were taken aback and almost made me question wanting to read it again. But I'm happy I did. It's good! Granted, I never quite connect with some of these classic novels where the dream guy is in fact rather brute or rude. At least this time the guy shows more kindness and attention to her. I liked Jane's calmness and rational thinking though!
Next up was The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I enjoyed Brown's other books, and a friend mentioned this one was also really great. Oddly it brought a fun memory where a girl came up to me at a college fair years ago looking for noetic science (which is highlighted in this novel) and when I asked what that was she seemed annoyed and said something along the lines of "it's from the new Dan Brown novel!!!" However now I'm ready! The end kindof dragged for me as the 'bad guy' had been taken care of and the rest just tied up a little bit about Mason symbols, but I still enjoy the rabbit hole Brown takes people down with conspiracies, symbolism, and action. Plus this one takes place in DC which I appreciate since it's a place I've actually been. It always shocks me though when you realize his books pretty much just take place over a few hours or a day!
Lastly I read Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Surprisingly I had never read this before! Which is a bit disappointing because I enjoyed it! Who doesn't like a book about an adorable little boy who suddenly finds himself thrown from rags to riches but still remains just as kind and generous as he was before. I do appreciate good manners and thinking of others.
Books Read in 2014:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Burned by Ellen Hopkins
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
A Grief Observed by CS Lewis
The Monument Men by Robert Edsel
The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Beer
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass Isak Dinesen
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Looking for Alaska by John Green
When Life Comes Undone by TJ Addington
Number the Stars by Lois Lowery
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Where There's Smoke by Jodi Picoult
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
