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Total Books Read: 7
Year-to-date: 74
New: 0
Rereads: 7
From the Shelves: 7
From the Library: 0
On the Kindle: 0
Novels: 7
Novellas:0
Short Stories: 0
Short Stories: 0
Non-English Language: 0
In Original Language: 0
Books read in July were:
1) Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1874)
2) Adam Bede by George Eliot (1859)
3) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
4) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (1848)
5) North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1855)
6) Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope (1865)
7) The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (1859)
Books read in July were:
1) Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1874)
2) Adam Bede by George Eliot (1859)
3) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
4) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (1848)
5) North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1855)
6) Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope (1865)
7) The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (1859)
Murakami Challenge: 0 (2/3)
Aussie Author Challenge: 0 (13/12)
Victorian Literature Challenge: 7 (20/15)
Japanese Literature Challenge 5: 0 (2/1)
Japanese Literature Challenge 5: 0 (2/1)
Tony's Recommendation for July is: George Eliot's Adam Bede
Well, it's hard to pick a winner when all the competitors are old friends, but George Eliot's excellent tale of pastoral tragedy has always been a favourite of mine. Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd is another which stands up to constant rereading, and (as those of you who are regular readers no doubt know) I'm also a big fan of the works of big bad Tony Trollope, my last-minute decision to reread Can You Forgive Her? almost certainly leading me to commit to rereading all of the Palliser novels over the rest of 2011. Honourable mentions go to, well, all of them really - that's the great thing about rereading your favourite books! Do try it some time :)
