Well, I’m so excited about The Classics Challenge I have a few books that I’ve been wanting to read and need to get to. This will definitely help me dive back into the classical book world. I decided not to go into this challenge with a list but let the list build as I go along. There are a couple books that I will definitely read for this challenge. I’ve been reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for a while now and will be using it as one of the books for this challenge. I also plan to read String of Pearls for this challenge. String of Pearls was a find while in Korea, I did talk about it in an earlier post. It’s the story that helped to propel the Sweeney Todd story, it’s actually the first story about Todd that later because a musical, which in turn became a movie staring Depp. Finally I plan to read Moby Dick by Herman Melville the reason I’ve selected this novel is because Stratford Shakespeare Festival is putting on a production of Moby Dick by the same people that did The Overcoat. The other two books will come as I go along.
In the next little while I plan to post reviews on this site of the productions at the Festival as something a little different. I’m a huge fan of the theatre and have read many plays and I thought this would be a way to bring my love of theatre and love of books together.
I look forward to reading these books and the adventures that come with them. Because this is a new foray into literature for me it would be interested to hear from you any books that would be good for me to look into.
Posted by Trish on July 14, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Whew! Moby Dick is a biggie but a very good read. Glad you’ll be joining us. You actually left your link for the Orbis Terranum challenge so I’m going to swap it out for this link.
Posted by bybee on July 15, 2008 at 4:42 am
I’m very impressed with you. Can’t wait to see your String Of Pearls review!
Posted by thatsthebook on July 17, 2008 at 7:52 am
Bybee: Well you were there when I got String of Pearls, I’m so excited to read it. I’m surprised I lasted this long already without reading it. But alas I have too many books on the go now as it is.
Trish: Yeah it’s a big one but given that the show in town is a movement I thought I should read the book to better understand the story. Opps, my mistake…sorry.
Posted by Alex on August 16, 2008 at 2:40 am
Your blog is interesting!
Keep up the good work!