A small response to halleloujah.blogspot.co.uk's post on classics

So the Guardian paper posted an article a year ago about classics that people generally claim to read. I'll post the link at the bottom of the post though.

The top ten books people claim to have read, but haven't, are:

1984 by George Orwell – 26% I tried and failed (Too boring)

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy – 19% I got three-quarters through when I had to stop because of GCSE's

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens – 18% Read and loved!

Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger – 15% Not approached

A Passage to India by E M Forster – 12% Not approached

Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkein – 11% Love, love, love, love!

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee – 10% Tried but gave up, I wasn't feeling it.

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky – 8% Not approached

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen – 8% Do I even have to answer this?

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë – 5% The only Bronte book I can read without getting annoyed.

Titles that just missed the cut are The Bible (3%), Homer’s Odyssey (3%) andWuthering Heights (2%).

See it's okay not to have read any of these because they're not commonly read or taught. Okay Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird and Great Expectations are but not to the degree that everyone has to read them. My high school English offered Lord of the Flies and Heroes as the two books for our exams, of course the books were chosen for the sets you were in but I requested to read Heroes in addition to LOTF because I wanted to expand my choices...I chose LOTF though because Simon and Piggy </3

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10286930/More-than-half-of-us-lie-about-reading-classic-novels.html

Lightning In A Bottle

Okay so I've been fairly absent for awhile but it's for good reasons I swear!
So stealing the title for this post from The Summer Set's song (great song btw), I am happy to reveal reasons why I have indeed been too busy for posting.

Reason #1: I now have a horse on loan. Yup I officially loan a horse from a family friend and so he requires me to be there for 8:30am and 4:30pm to groom, feed, clean and exercise. You may wonder that's a big gap inbetween, so I now go onto reason two.

Reason #2: Family. Yes I belong to a very busy and OCD household that order me to do various chores around the house daily, and yes they do repeat themselves but what can I say?

Reason #3: My tortoise. As he's been a bit under the weather, I've had to give him daily baths and make sure he's pooping okay and eating.

Reason #4: Social needs. Yes I like many people out there do need to have my quota of socialization filled. So far that has been going okay, I've encountered some awkward moments but they're just what comes with befriending myself. (Just ask Lou @ halleloujah.blogspot.co.uk)

So yeah. They're the reasons I am currently disclosing. My reading has been continuing but very slowly as I am indeed reading New Adult fiction to write a compare and contrast on it against the beautiful genre that is Young Adult as they both have been scrutiny over what audience they truly have and why they are two different genres.

Hurrah for friends!

So as this is my first official post on here that isn't a review, I'd like to take the time to write about my best friend Lou aka halleloujah.blogspot.co.uk. This girl recently has lent me/recommended me the most fantastic books lately which started with the Slated series and more. But yeah, go check her blog out, she writes far more interesting things than I and probably goes more into detail than me. What are you waiting for?

Go to halleloujah.blogspot.co.uk