Books.
Literature. Pieces of paper with squiggles. Whether you have read one in your
life or millions, novels are often a huge part of who we are. As a lover of
books first and a Literature student second I always have one in front of my
nose.
There are
many ‘100 books you must read before you die’ lists, but I think that a list
like that has to be more personal. It’s all well and good to say “I’m gonna
read the whole works of Dickens” but if you’re not a fan that’s going to be
hard work. Just like if you hated fantasy LOTR is obviously not the trilogy for
you. Reading should be fun, not a chore.
With the
help of some friends we have combined a few lists and switched round books we feel each other should read. Overall
I’ve read twenty one of the hundred, some of my favourites being Ian Banks’ cringy Wasp Factory, Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four and Shelly’s Frankenstein.
Over Summer completing this list is my mission, there are quite a few books on the list that I've been avoiding, and I hope this will help me to get a much wider reading scope than just Sci Fi and Shakespeare. Either that or every book on this list turns out to be Sci Fi and I don't have to widen my horizons, but I think that's pushing it a bit...
Jane Eyre here I come.
Helen
