Book Me Books

It's Book Me Books Wrapped Hello! It's another year and my first review of books that I've read this year. I'm going to keep this article quite simple and just list out the books I read without any crazy statistics; then I'm going to set out my Bookish Goals of 2025. Buckle up for an exhilarating read.  Classics/ Modern Classics 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' - Oscar Wilde                               'The Importance of Being Earnest' - Oscar Wilde                    'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' - Anne  Bront ë                   'Wuthering Heights' - Emily  Bront ë                                           'Pride and Prejudice' - Jane Austen            ...

Isn't marriage just complicated? Rating -  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Genre - romance, novel of manners Themes - love, wealth, marriage, class, pride, prejudice Similar Books - 'Wuthering Height' - Emily Bront ë,  'Sense and Sensibility' - Jane Austen Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters desperately need to marry to ensure stability in their futures, in an era where women have limited choices for self-preservation. 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen explores the tumultuous road to a successful marriage through difficulties of trust, wealth and love, as seen in Mr Darcy's and Elizabeth's difficult relationship from enemies to lovers.   I particularly liked Austen's characterisation of the women in the novel, especially as she is most praised for the realistic construction of her characters. Each sister has a distinct personality, Elizabeth being the brave one, Jane the mature one, their younger sisters childish but desperate to be part of society. Elizabeth'...

And this is why we don't play God. Rating -  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Genre - Science - fiction, Gothic, Horror Themes - ambition, knowledge, revenge, community Similar Books/ Plays - 'Dracula' - Bram Stoker, 'Macbeth' - William Shakespeare, 'Wuthering Heights' - Emily Bront ë 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley opens with Captain Robert Walton on his voyage to the North Pole in the pursuit of knowledge and glory, until he comes upon a man upon the ice about to die. His crew saves him and Walton nurses the man back to health. He soon learns that the mysterious man's name is Victor Frankenstein, who narrates his story of ambition and knowledge and how in an unorthodox scientific experiment, he created a living creature, a monster who goes on to create chaos through violence and murder. Written when Mary Shelley was only 19 years old and considered the novel which established the science - fiction genre, 'Frankenstein' is an action packed novel filled with dra...

It's nonsense really. Rating -  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Genre - play, satire, comedy Themes - society, class, identity, romance, responsibility Similar Books - 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' - Oscar Wilde, 'Noah Can't Even' - Simon James Green, Apologies for the two week hiatus but rejoice for I am back with a fun, silly play by Oscar Wilde: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'. The play follows two men, Jack and Algernon, as they adopt fictional characters, Earnest and Bunbury, to escape the responsibilities of society and family. Jack creates a mischievous brother called Earnest in town, using him have a little fun. He soon falls in love with Gwendolen, Algernon's cousin, and wishes to marry her. However, when Algernon finds out about Jack's deception and his ward Cecily back in the countryside, he adopts the persona of Jack's fictional brother Earnest in order to pursue her. Now both men must become the characters they adopted in order to marry the women th...