I've finally finished Wuthering Heights! If you read my other blog, you know that this has been a HUGE week for me, so the fact that I also managed to finish this in the last few days is a pretty big feat. I've just had SO much going on lately that it took me a lot longer to read this than it normally would have.
This was a wonderful novel! It is very dark, but it is still a great romance. It is a tale of a love that is so intense it destroys all those it touches...pretty amazing stuff! Heathcliff, devil that he is, still manages to win the sympathy of the reader in his love and heartache for Catherine.
I find it very sad that this is Emily Brontë's only novel (or at least, the only one that survives). It is a classic, and a good read! It is beautifully haunting, and I will eventually re-read it, and hopefully at a somewhat faster pace next time. I feel like some of the intensity got lost in the length of time it took me to read it. I'd read a few chapters and then have to put it off for a while before picking it up again, and I rather think it would have been even better if I'd been able to read it in a more compact time frame. At any rate, I very highly recommend it! If you have trouble with reading accents, check out the link I put in my last post. It was a great help in interpreting Joseph's extreme Yorkshire dialect.
Next up: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, a mystery. The cover and title caught my eye, and the description sounds delightful! It is the winner of the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award, and I'm just really looking forward to reading it! I imagine that it'll go a bit faster than Wuthering Heights...we shall see!
Happy reading! :-D
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