Even the worst situations can have a silver lining. Being stuck at home
gives me more time to read. Yes, I already read one or two books a week, but
church and photo club meetings took a lot of my spare time. So I might as well
take advantage of the break to catch up on some of those classics that I either
read long ago or planned to read “some day.”
The illustration at the head of this post is from Silas Marner by George
Eliot. She has been one of my favorite authors since high school, and it hasn’t
been that long since I re-read The Mill on the
Floss and Middlemarch. But I finally got around to re-reading Silas
Marner, and it reminded me how much I enjoy some of the
old classics.
I’m going to read Moby Dick next. I can’t remember if I ever have, but it would have been a long
time ago, anyway. I also downloaded a free version of War and Peace for my Kindle,
although I’m not guaranteeing that I’ll read that anytime soon.
Then there are multi-published authors like Charles Dickens. Wikipedia
lists twenty “notable works,” and I’ve only read about half of them. I’ve read
every book Jane Austin wrote, but if you haven’t, consider picking up Persuasion or Mansfield Park, which are
among her lesser-known works.
As you sit at home trying to keep busy, consider reading or re-reading
the classics. And if you have children or grandchildren, this is the time to
get them interested in the books you read as a child.
That’s the subject of next week’s post.
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The
illustration was drawn by Hugh Thomson for a 1907 edition of Silas Marner.
It is in the public domain because of its age.
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