BYL Reading Challenge discussion

Classics don't have to be dry or dull. There are a ton of really great options!

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Dune - Frank Herbert
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White (middle grade)

I just requested Jane Eyre from our library.

Sadly, I have never read Little Women, so this is the motivation I need to dive in this year.

Instead of Little Women because I have read or seen that way too many times, I'm going to read the next book in that series - Little Men. Noone has made any movie about that book!! I wonder why?

Or I could read the Color Purple.

It's a tossup - or I can read both...

I am going to read "1984" by George Orwell. I love dystopian novels and this seems to be a classic one to me.

My Side of the Mountain. I've read it before, but I'm reading it to my kids now. I actually made them start it today in the middle of a snowstorm, because obviously, and they weren't quite as delighted as I was.

I was supposed to have read Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse in high school and I don't remember doing that. This is the year!

For my tween, I think she really needs to read The Wind in the Willows. She's not a Hobbit type of reader and honestly, I'm not sure she'd ever pick a classic. Possibly The House on Mango Street

I just finished Frankenstein: The 1818 Text. I haven't read an older classic in years. I kept asking myself if people really used to talk that way, and being amazed at how much we've dumbed ourselves down if they did, LOL. I was also amazed at how different the original story is from the pop culture references.

I did it! I finally read Little Women. And I loved it.

For this prompt I read Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. It was so good. Highly recommend!