Monday, April 11, 2016
This week: 1066 and all that
A third of the way into April, this year's Read of England is already a roaring success. It helps that I had a head start in March, of course. The main reason I tried to reserve a block of time last year was to take on Dickens and Austen, since if my regular torrent of reading wasn't interrupted, the'd never compete. This year the project succeeds: several classics have been spoken for, along with a few minor diversions. Having favored literature so heavily at the start, this week I'll be relaxing with my usual treats, history and historical fiction, before pushing literature heavy again to close. What's up next? The English Resistance, most likely, though I've also purchased a book on Waterloo by a certain familiar author with the initials, B.C.
Our English pilgrimage so far:
English Classics
Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Other Works Set in England:
My Man Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
The Road to Little Dribbling, Bill Bryson
Other Works, by English Authors
Frodo's Journey, Joseph Pearce
Bilbo's Journey, Joseph Pearce
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