Hello! I am Lizzie, and my main joy in life is reading books and thinking about books! I have so many thoughts about each book I read so wanted a place to record these thoughts, and a place where others who are reading the same book as me can share their thoughts about it too. I’ve tried to write my (often lengthy!) reviews of books so it feels like I am chatting with you as we read the book together, comparing thoughts at the end of a chapter and ideas of where the plot and characters may end up, wondering why the author has written a character or scene in a particular way and what they may be subtly trying to tell us about that character or scene. So enjoy reading along with me, and please get in touch, I’d love to be able to discover more about a favourite book from your thoughts on it.
I’ve been meaning to re-read this book for a while, as it was years and years ago that I first read it and I don’t remember much really about the story so it will feel like I’m reading it for the first time. It’s always strange, though, reading an old classic for the first time (or the first time in a long time) as so many aspects of the story are inevitably familiar just from it being a famous story (and often a film or tv series), so you kind of know the basic details before you even start reading it and this always makes me wistfully think how amazing it would have been to be someone reading it for the first time in 1818 (when it was published) with no inkling of what it was about as I can imagine a horror story like this must have been fairly shocking! Read the full review