Reading Progress

It's almost a month (I think) since I got started on Oliver Twist. And now guess where I am? Stuck at pg. 188. Well, the novel is quite a handful. The fact that it is thick is awesome because the story is very intriguing and I am always wondering what will happen to Oliver. To be honest I can't really guess if the boy will get a happy ending or not. When I think of it that way, I actually pant XD. What make me feel exhausted after a chapter or two are the setting and the vocab Dickens used. I'm not very used to that period of England, so some things are very new and I don't know if I had imagined the places correctly. Words such as beadle, charity-boy and whatsoever are soo unfamiliar. Maybe those are the reasons why I don't really enjoy reading some books set in Victorian, Georgian, Elizabethan era. Ahh... the headache LOL

Anyways, in my opininion, classics reccommend by §cholastics that I have read so far are of very high-quality. Original, dazzling, lively and far from nonsense. I have read and came to love Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Five Children and It, Hound of the Baskervilles, and Oliver Twist thougb only half-read. They are brilliant and wonderfully-written. I started adoring Anne of Green Gables when the animated series were on a local channel. I have always waited for the school catalogs and browse thoroughly to see if they have any classics and Anne was on there but alas, she's nowhere to be seen. So I downloaded LibriVox and listened to the audiobook. I'm not entirely sure which chapter I am on but I am never bored of the book and will keep on reading (listening?) if time allows. Sadly, school holiday is coming to its end. Based on my public exam result, it's likely that I'll be sent to a boarding school next year, maybe in mid-January or Feb, =/ If I am allowed to bring it to the hostel, I'll try to find a walkman or mp3 player so that I can listen to the lovely voice of the narrator while joining Anne (i'm almost on the chapter where she'll be going to the local school, kinda fitting).

So there are still ten books or so to be read *beams* . I am comforted when I know that my reading stock is at least decent in number so I can just grab a book and enter another realm. Wattpad is sometimes my alternative when my stock is running low, but you know it's different.


Unfortunately, m battery is dying so.. see you another time!