Sadly, I have not gotten a chance to start The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater, the second book in The Raven Cycle series. I finished the first book in a spurt early Monday morning in order to avoid doing homework, and since then I have had nothing but more homework and exhaustion.
It doesn’t help that I actually purchased another book when I bought the sequel, of course. Does anyone go to the bookstore looking for a particular book and actually leave with only that book? Apparently the Kindle store is the same. I bought Little Women mainly because a kind of raved about movie adaptation is taunting me and I haven’t read the book.
Sevita actually commented in our co-op prep class that she hadn’t read it and it made her not the best English major, which I’m sure is not true but quite reflects my own shortcomings as an English major; I haven’t really read a lot of classics. To be perfectly honest, I think as a whole they are overrated. I have only enjoyed a few of the ones I have read and even most of those seem to lack the same levels of escapism that I can get from more modern reading. My longstanding exception to that is The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, which I mention specifically because I noticed in one of our subscriptions that it has a movie adaptation coming out this year!? I’m very excited.
Anyway, the point is that I bought Little Women and so now I’m conflicted on what to read next. Especially with the persistent voice in my head suggesting that I reread The Secret Garden. Movie adaptations that come out inconveniently years after you’ve read something are the worst.
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