Kathy's Big Fat Books in 2021

I am hoping to read at least 4 BFB's this year. Here are some possibilities:

Emma: an annotated edition, Jane Austen
✓ Shirley, Charlotte Bronte
✓ Our Mutual Friend, Dickens (audiobook)
✓ Adam Bede, George Eliot
Romola, George Eliot
Felix Holt, the Radical, George Eliot
Waverley, Sir Walter Scott
The Vicar of Bulhampton, Anthony Trollope
✓ Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens, 688 pages
✓ Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens, 688 pages
✓ Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, 521 pages

Hi Kathy, good to see you back for another year.

>2 connie53: Thanks. I have 4 books that I had listed last year as possible that I didn't read, so I hope to get to at 1 or 2 of those.

Hi Kathy my dear, nice to see you here again dear friend.

>4 johnsimpson: Thanks, John--I was very happy with my 6 BFBs read in 2020, so I hope I can do at least 4 and maybe more.

BFB 1. Finally finished listening to Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens, 688 pages. This was a re-read on audiobook, read by Simon Vance. I've read this book in print in 1990 and 2009, and then listened to the audiobook in 2012. I just am amazed at the voices and nuances that Simon Vance brings to this book. Several times I was brought to tears--not a good thing when your listening while driving.

BFB 2. Finished a re-read of Adam Bede by George Eliot (1859); 540 pages. I'm struck how Eliot has no "evil" characters in this book. There are plenty of people with faults and who make bad choices, but unlike Dickens, there is no one really horrible person.

BFB 3. Shirley, Charlotte Bronte (1849); 542 pages

BFB 4. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens (1865); audiobook read by Simon Vance; 800 pages

BFB 5. Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens (1841); audiobook read by Simon Vance; 688 pages. This seemed very relevant when the mob storms Parliament.

BFB 6. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (1847); 521 pages; a re-read to begin Victober 2021.

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Thanks, John--hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday season.

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