Bookish Questions – What book have you always meant to read?

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What book have you always meant to read and haven’t gotten around to yet? Anything you feel embarrassed never to have read?

Pride-and-Prejudice_BNYa know, as much as everyone seems to love it, I have never read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Come to think of it, I’ve never read any of Austen’s novels.  I feel like this is something I should get around to someday, it’s just never been a top priority in my TBR list.  I’d much rather read a new sci-fy or fantasy novel than take the time to read P&P. Especially since I already know the plot. It’s impossible not to, with all of the screen adaptions and retellings out in the world.  So, perhaps I will get to it someday, but that day won’t be today.

As far as being embarrassed to have not read something, I don’t have that.  I have no problems saying that I haven’t read a book. I was too busy reading other ones. Besides, it might give the person I’m talking to a subject they can tell me about. Maybe they can convince me why I should take the time to read it.

Do you have a book that you’ve been meaning to read, but just keep putting off?

3 Comments

  1. anna in spain on June 28, 2016 at 8:43 am

    Having failed to get through The Brothers Karamazov, though I tried twice, and three times failed to manage (The Life and Opinions of) Tristram Shandy (psssst! It’s not really that funny anymore, though what it was like 200 yrs ago I don’t know), I don’t feel bad about not having read stuff, either. P and P is not my favourite Austen; I think I may have told you I prefer Mansfield Park (the book, not the horrible movie made by a woman who actually boasted she’d never actually read it!). But I’m odd like that.

    A book I keep promising myself I’m going to read is War and Peace. It was on my paralell reading list in highschool (AP they call it now) and I started it, partly because the TV series was so popular in the mid-70s…but trust me, 15 was far too young to tackle that book. Let alone being from a small rural Midwestern town, so all that business with the Russian names and nicknames went straight over my head and I thought that 4 people were about a dozen!

    I’d also like to actually read Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, which is one of those books that university students like to pretend they have read and often haven’t. I did read Orlando in the 80s and loved the richness of the language, but I will warn you–it bogs down in the middle.

    I’m still in a bit of a book slump as described in some of my Goodreads reviews, so though I am paging through Moll Flanders I am of course finding it predictable–but that’s my problem, not Defoe’s. Me, I’m just grumpy! I turn 54 on Thursday but I promise that’s not it. I’m just tired.

    • Andrea on June 28, 2016 at 3:03 pm

      You should read some Shel Silverstein poetry. It’s fun and nonsensical- perfect for reading slumps.

  2. anna on October 14, 2016 at 1:32 am

    Another author I always feel slightly guilty that I’ve never actually read, is Marcel Proust. Why this should cause me to feel bad I have no idea. I went so far as to download A La Recherche du Temps Perdu etc from Gutenberg and I think I may have started the first volume, but I didn’t get very far before going back to my usual light fodder.

    I guess I’ve outgrown reading to be seen reading, if you know what I mean. But someday….maybe….I’ll make it down Swann’s Way.

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