I've always been 'a reader' and had several books on the go. As a young reader I loved fantasy, and continued reading it through into adulthood. I've read lot of contemporary fiction (much of it from recs on here, thank you!). But I'm feeling like there has been s big gap in my reading life where other people read The Classics and I did not.
So no Dickens, no Hardy, no Austen, no Bronte. I remembrer reading billy liar, sunset song and Lord of the flies at school, some Shakespear, some Brecht. Did higher and 6th year English but was in the second set for the former and the latter was a skive, led by a fairly louche Irish woman who had us reading Keats and other poetry most of the time.
I joined a book club a year ago and recently revealed that I'd never read Pride and Prejudice... Shock and horror was the least of it! So despite being highly qualified in my field (science) I feel like maybe I should try to catch up.
Where should I begin? And is it worth it??