Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish. This week’s theme is: Top Ten Classics I Want To Read This is an interesting topic for me as although I have read quite a few so far in my life, there are even more classics I want to read than what I have already read! I really do need to read more classics and I […]
80s and 90s YA Fiction The Young Adult book market has changed a lot over the years. I read a great deal of YA fiction throughout the 1990s (the vast majority of which was actually published in the 1980s). The genre was quite different back then. There was not the vast array of choice that there is for younger readers nowadays. There really has been something of a boom in […]
I had already seen the BBC production of North and South (many, many times!) before reading this book so had a good idea of the story and the setting. North and South, in some respects, is like a grittier version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (another book and TV adaptation that I love). The story and characters are deep and full of imperfections which is why I think I […]