British Classics – Cannonball Read 17

“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice”

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

June 5, 2021 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

There’s always classics I’ve been meaning to read but haven’t gotten to yet, and summers are in part a chance to chip away at that long, long list (so many books! so little time). E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View was the latest to be ticked off the list, and it’s a nice one to get around to. Forster’s second novel, after Where Angels Fear to Tread, it’s a brisk, breezy, Austenesque volume that comes in under 200 pages: quick, spritely, and while it clearly […]

Forget your Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. The original is far more weird then they could ever manage.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

February 1, 2021 by elderberrywine 16 Comments

Of the three Bronte sisters, Emily wrote only one book, Wuthering Heights, and it was a corker. Set on the Yorkshire moors, this was not the ultra-romantic tale you might have expected from the movie versions. No, these people are feral, and there is but a sliver of difference between love and hate in their hearts. So a brief summary. There are two properties on the Yorkshire moors – Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff is brought to Wuthering Heights as a foundling (implied […]

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