Villette
8/10 Did I like Villette? “Pretty well. The natives, you know, are intensely stupid and vulgar; but there are some nice English families”. This book was captivating, well-craf
The Pickwick Papers
7/10 My werdick? A wery funny and heart-warming read. This novel may well be the funniest that I have ever read. I can only think of ‘Mariana’ by Dickens’
The Count of Monte Cristo
9/10 I loves me count, boi. A shocking, thrilling, compelling, edge-of-your-seat meditation on the limits of justice and the cost of revenge. Though this novel was not ‘high lite
The Chronicles of Blarnia
0/10 Quite literary (‘literally’ surely? Ed.) a waste of time. Offensive, pathetic, mean-spirited, immature, and howlingly unfunny. Even with CensorVision, this pitiful book co
Persuasion
8/10 Romantic; precisely formulated; and, occasionally, laugh out loud funny. What a respectable personal favourite to have! Though some themes in this text were painful to me (…
Don Quixote
I respected and appreciated this novel for what it was and its huge and long-lasting impact on literature.
SRA 2019
Dear Aisling, Thank you again for taking the time to curate such an excellent, with the exception of one text, summer reading list. It was of such a high standard and comprised