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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
4.0
i laughed out loud while reading this in my study hall in high school, and the kid sitting next to me thought i was crazy.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century by James Simpson, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Jon Stallworthy, Jack Stillinger, James Noggle, Lawrence Lipking, Carol T. Christ, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, George M. Logan, Catherine Robson, Jahan Ramazani, M.H. Abrams, Alfred David, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Stephen Greenblatt
5.0
this is actually my textbook for a british lit class, but i have fallen in love with it. the selections are wonderful, and the introductions and footnotes are all clear and useful. i suppose i have a love-hate relationship with most of the romantics, but i found myself leaning towards loving them somehow--though perhaps that had more to do with the class itself.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
5.0
i love how dickens reveals the reality that neither side was in the right in the french revolution, how both were so depraved, how disaster was inevitable on both sides. the symbolism, also, is beautiful, and i suddenly found that, in spite of my feelings about Great Expectations (not so good), i do like dickens after all.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.0
heartbreaking. incredible. I don't know how Adichie kept this sense of hope and optimism alive somewhere in the midst of such a story. I read this for a postcolonial narratives course and could not stop reading it. It's definitely worth reading. I'd do a little research on the time period in Nigeria surrounding the book as well, to understand the chronology of the events and the depth of their meaning.