Far from the Madding Crowd--
A Ghost in the Throat
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, this edition published by the aptly named Collins Classics
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, this edition published by Penguin Popular Classics
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa, published by Tramp Press
Loved Woman in White. Picked up Hardy in a charity shop, but have yet to read it. I haven't read any Hardy, and only know he's depressing, but I'll get to it eventually. I think it will have to be the right time. Ghost in the Throat is an incredible book that I have sitting next to me in the living room--it's at the top of the pile and I want to re-read it soon.
Taking the Leap--
A Struggle for Fame
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, this edition published by Grafton Books
Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears by Pema Chodron, published by Shambhala
A Struggle for Fame by Charlotte Riddell, published by Tramp Press
A friend gave me the Tressell book several years ago when he was clearing out some things. It belonged to his late wife. I've heard good things about it, but haven't yet read it. It's just under Ghost in the Throat on my pile and will be read soon. It's not an exaggeration to say that Pema Chodron's work saved my life during a very bad time. She's very practical and filled with common sense. I just finished A Struggle for Fame, a less well known classic by an Irish writer. I was expecting something Gaskell-esque, but it's different. I enjoyed it a lot.
The Chalk Pit
To the Lighthouse--
Frost in May
The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths, published by Quercus
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, this edition published by Wordsworth Editions
Frost in May by Antonia White, published by Virago Modern Classics
Chalk Pit was a charity shop find that I brought home for some future moment when I feel like reading a mystery. It's one of the Dr Ruth Galloway series, which I find reliably good, so I know that when I'm tired or something, I can pick it up and get into it. To the Lighthouse was also bought at a charity shop. I read it decades ago and will re-read at some point. Frost in May is by an author I'd never heard of until last week, when we were in a charity shop and I saw it on the shelf. I bought it because of the publisher and the blurb. I'm about halfway through it and it's quite good, if very chilling.
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Another excellent spine poem post and it's always nice to see the books in the piles too ... makes me realise how many good books I still have to read :)
All the best Jan
Good reading here, Shari. Actually, about a year ago - maybe two - or was it when I was holed up during COVID? - I went on a bit of a Thomas Hardy binge, reading titles I had not read in many years, some going all the way back to high school. He is a force in English literature to be sure and I enjoyed keeping company with him again.
Me too, Jan! My 'problem'--or one of them anyway--is that I know what I want to pick up next, then some other book waves at me and I head in that direction like a magnet. Or I know I want to read something, but it's not the right time for that kind of book. I'm very much a mood reader.
I'm glad to hear your thoughts on Hardy, David. He's shown up in the charity shops a few times in recent months, so I've been able to pick up Far from the Madding Crowd, Mayer of Casterbridge, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles. And of course, I'm sure all his work is on the Project Gutenberg page and the Canadian version, Faded Page.
I was not aware of Faded Page, Shari. Thanks for the information. Miriam is already poring through it.
Tell Miriam happy hunting for me! And happy reading to you both!😀
I like how you put these together Shari. And you have some good books too. The Woman in White is a good book (in fact I'm thinking of reading it again), and you can't go wrong with Ellie Griffiths. The classics are the classics for a good reason. I haven't read any Hardy since college, but I seem to remember I liked Tess of the D'Ubervilles.
Thanks, Erika. I like Griffiths, especially her two books with the seniors doing the detecting. I think the first was The Postscript Murders and the other was The Last Word. Harbinder Kaur makes a brief appearance in the last one. That's a good series, too.
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