This Tuesday The Broke and the Bookish would like to talk about characters that they wish had their own book. There is often a side character with an interesting back story that I would like to learn more about. Here are just a few of them…
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Top Ten Tuesday – Halloween
This week’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish is all about Halloween. I’m not really a huge fan of scary books, so I’ll be splitting this week’s Top Ten into two Top Fives.
Today’s theme is: Books to Read to get into the Halloween Spirit and Characters I Would Want to be for Halloween.
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The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was my friend’s Great Gatsby themed hen do a couple of weeks ago, and so I finally read this ‘Great American Novel’ in the name of research!
This book had an effect on me which not many have, where it’s not so much the reading of it that I found interesting, as the aftermath. A similar thing happened with Story of O. I finished The Great Gatsby over a week ago, and yet I’m still thinking about it. And the more I think about it, the more I like it. I almost want to read it again to take a closer look at the words, and read more deeply into the many significant metaphors that I may not have noticed first time round. For such a short novel, there are so many themes. It’s a quick read, but certainly not a light one.
Bundle of Books 