I enjoy reading but can recall the days of high school where I had to read books I would not have otherwise selected. When it came to this challenge a lot of books came to mind, but I wanted to get a bit of diversity in there so I choose:
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
They could not have been more different and with no necessity to read them, they were not without challenges. Anna Karenina was LONG (the ebook version I was reading was over 1500 pages!). Their Eyes Were Watching God is written in a dialect, so I often found myself almost reading aloud in order to get into the swing of reading the book.
Overall I thoroughly enjoyed the books. Each had qualities I loved. I'm trying to find some old essays I would have wrote on these books in school as I would love to see how 10+ years has changed my perspective on them.
I'll leave you with a few of my favorite quotes...
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” - To Kill A Mockingbird
“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” - To Kill A Mockingbird
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” - Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time" - Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Pheoby, yuh got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God and they got tuh find out about livin fuh theyselves.” - Their Eyes Were Watching God
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