The past couple months, I have been mixing up my reading list a bit more than usual. No, I'm not referring to the dark side (historical biographies), and no, I haven't given up my guilty tween-reading serial pleasures, such as Harry Potter or the Hunger Games (eek). Speaking of Harry Potter, I've actually been reading the series from beginning to end for the first time in about a decade, and am not ashamed that I'm enjoying every magical minute of it...
However, in between these Hogwarts excursions, I've been peppering in classics, such as Jane Eyre and Les Miserables. Also on the list: This Side of Paradise, Tale of Two Cities, and Othello. Besides being available for free download onto my Kindle, these books have something else in common: I've never read them.Gasp!
I know. As an ardent reader and erstwhile English major, you would think that at least some of the titles would be old news. It's rather embarrassing to admit this here. I mean, what self-respecting graduate of high school hasn't read Dickens' most classic tale? And don't all teenage girls love Bronte's bildungsroman? Alas, for one reason or another, these novels were never "required reading" for me, and so have remained unread--until now.
Call it pride, an early New Year's resolution, or just a long overdue sense of duty, but as a self-proclaimed lover of books, I feel like it's important to cross these classics off my personal reading list. How else will I know for sure how evil of a villain Iago is?
What about you? Any books you've faked your way through reading? What are those classics you never read way-back-when? Share your most embarrassing almost-reads here.
