Hard times indeed....

Started reading Hard Times and loving every minute of it! Dickens is a master of creating characters that last decades and Thomas Gradgrind is no exception. "Facts alone are wanted in life"; truer words were never spoken. ^_^

Victorian Literature Challenge! ^_^

This is my first time posting on any blog, so I'm very excited! Better yet, I get the privilege of entering Subtle Melodrama's Victorian Challenge 2011! Here's my list for the Desperate Remedies level so far.

Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure(finished)
Tess of the d'Ubervilles

George Elliot

Daniel Deronda
Middlemarch
Silas Marner(along with The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob)

Elizabeth Gaskell

Wives and Daughters
The Life of Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

The Professor
Shirley

Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone(currently reading)

Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Mansfeld Park

Charles Dickens(my favorite novelist!)

Nicholas Nickelby
Hard Times(finished)
Bleak House

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

I'm going to opt to re-read Shirley and The Professor as they are books that, in my opinion, I didn't read thoroughly enough. Wish me luck! ^_^