Author: Jennifer @ The Relentless Reader

It’s Monday! 08/06/12

~ Jennifer @ The Relentless Reader ~ 31 Comments

I love this Monday reading meme, I’ve found some great blogs and some fantastic book recommendations by visiting all of the participating blogs.
Unfortunately this last week was not a great reading week for me. Boo! But I did have some fun on my blog:
Gone Reading created a coupon for YOU Relentless Readers which is pretty darn cool if you ask me!
I’ve joined The Classics Club. I had been eyeing up this challenge for a little while now and decided to take the plunge. You should check it out and join!
Here are some bookish bits from the past week.

My local library is having their annual used book sale this morning. You know I have to go to that! I’m hoping for a good haul.

I’ll also be picking up a decent sized stack of requested books at the library. I’m in dire need of a good read or two (or ten)!

Have a great week of reading everyone!

EDIT* I’m adding the Musing Mondays meme which I came across today. I love the question so I have to jump in with my answer!

Hosted by Should Be Reading
This week’s question:
 What attracts you to a book blog? 
What puts you off in a book blog? 
Do you share personal stuff on your book blog? 
As far as content I usually like concise reviews, I don’t want to read half of the book on someone’s blog, ha! I like blogs that feature other bookish news and happenings. There is always something going on in the literary world and it’s fun to see what other bloggers have found on their trips through the internet. 
I like a clean look, uncluttered and simple. My own blog is very bare bones as of now, but I’m hoping to jazz it up a bit soon. I’m looking for a good design.
So the things that put me off a blog are basically the opposite of the things above. Blinky colors and hard to read text (too small, too neon or what have you) music, cluttery buttons and unnecessary bits everywhere make my head (and eyes!) hurt. 
I don’t share many personal things on my blog, this is for book people…I’m guessing they don’t want to know what I had for dinner last night. But you never know where this blog could go, I’m still a newbie!

The Classics Club

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The Classics Club

I’ve joined The Classics Club!

I intend to read and blog about these 60 books in the next 5 years. I’m jazzed up about it! I love the classics and I love a good challenge! (By August of 2017)
  1. Atonement by Ian McEwan
  2. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  3. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  5. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  6. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  7. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  8. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  9. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  11. Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott
  12. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  13. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  14. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  15. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  16. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  17. Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
  18. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  19. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  20. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H.Lawrence
  21. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  22. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
  23. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  24. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  25. Watership Down by Richard Adams
  26. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
  27. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
  28. My Antonia by Willa Cather
  29. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  30. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  31. Silas Marner by George Eliot
  32. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  33. Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
  34. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
  35. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  36. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  37. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Vaughn
  38. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  39. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  40. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  41. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  42. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  43. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  44. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  45. Tales by Edgar Allen Poe
  46. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  47. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  48. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  49. The Best Short Stories by O.Henry
  50. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  51. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  52. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  53. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  54. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  55. Native Son by Richard Wright
  56. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  57. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  58. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  59. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  60. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Wish me luck and go check out The Classic Club if you want to join up!