9. North And South - Elizabeth Gaskell
One of the classics bought for me, by R, for my birthday. LOVED IT! I'm a sucker for a classic with a fiesty girl. In fact, I'm a sucker for any book with a fiesty girl! Margaret was pretty bloody awesome though. Rejecting two proposals (I'd have taken Mr Thornton on first glance!) and throwing herself in front of a baying mob, while having a chronically ill friend, a dying mother, and a preoccupied father. Totally psyched to read 'Mary Barton' now, if this is a toned down Gaskell!
10. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Another R classic :) Well, whoah. Totally struggled to follow it to start with, what with so many characters everywhere, but it got easier once Ellen took up the story. Think it definitely needs a re-read, though, to properly get it. I never really sympathised with any of them, except maybe Ellen, but was I supposed to? Heathcliff is kind of an 'emo of yesteryear', while Edgar... PANSY! And Catherine plain annoyed me. Yes, both of them (Complicated much?!).
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