Happy Friday everyone! Trying to start the new year off right! Time for some Reads N Reviews…
I do (finally) have a couple of reviews:

Author: Charlotte Bronte
Rating: 3.5 stars
This wound up being a good read.
Things I Enjoyed:
I liked the relationship between Shirley and Caroline. I enjoyed reading their conversations about love, religion and their take on the people around them. I do notice that a lot of young people on Booktube seem to enjoy this novel and rank it as their favorite classic. I was not surprised after reading it. Caroline’s lovesickness and romantic problem read a bit like a YA novel. Shirley’s gumption was enjoyable to read about as well. I liked reading about her trying to control her estate in a time when women were not commonly able to.
I enjoyed the writing – I love the style, the turn of phrase.
Things I Did Not Enjoy:
The length. Too long. No need for this book to be that long.
Some of the plot twists seemed convoluted. But… I went along with it.
Next I read:

Author: Anne Bronte
Rating: 3 stars
This was just.. ok.
Things I Enjoyed:
Anne’s writing. She is my favorite so far.
Things I Did Not Enjoy:
Maybe I am governess’d out. Cuz I was bored. Agnes was the governess for some nasty, unruly children I would not have lasted two days with. Her plight in trying to handle them and then being mistreated as a governess is the basic gist. While I am glad the novel ended with some happiness, I just didn’t want to read about it anymore. This did not take away from how … readable Anne’s writing is. I wish there was more by her to read.
Being governess’d out, I moved on to:

Which I am enjoying thus far. I have a used Everyman’s Classic of this book and wow, I do like this edition. I will be searching out more to collect in the future.
That’s all for now!
Happy reading!
Ughhhhhh, Hardy. I hope you end up liking him better than I did. If he was still alive, I’d kill him all over again 😀
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Gotta tell ya. I hate what is happening to the main character but I am captivated by the story.
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Then Hardy might just be your cup of tea. I was ready to commit murder against Hardy for almost every book of his that I read, so I know he’s not for me 😀
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