My Summer TBR!

It is officially summer! (even though I've been off school for months but that's  besides the point) Because I'm going  into the dreaded land of English lit. A-level once again where I have no time to read, I am taking this free time to read a ton! I've compiled a list of mainly classics to read during the summer for when I'm not taking part in readathons. And I thought I'd share them with you! (especially since it will make me go through with it) I'm not going to put blurbs or anything because there are quite a few and I don't want this post to be super long. :)

• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (re-read for school)
• A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams (school) 
• Mean Times, Carol Ann Duffy (school)
• A Room with a View, E.M.Forster (school)
• All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
• Emma, Jane Austen
• Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
• Villette, Charlotte Bronte
• The Tenant at Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
• Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
• Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens (this is my challenge read this year!)

So only a couple as you can see ;) I want to get as much reading done as possible this summer before school and I am excited about all of these so hopefully I can enjoy them all. I will also have other TBRs up for the readathons left this summer that won't include these so I am being very ambitious. What are plans this summer?
Speak soon

Jade xx 

Shakespeare Summer Challenge!

Hello! So I have decided to to set myself a challenge this summer and that challenge is to read 3 of Shakespeare's plays. The reasons this is that 1 I'm an English student and need to read widely and 2, I say I love Shakespeare but I've only actually read 1 of his plays all the way through, which is Much Ado About Nothing. The 3 plays that I am planning to read this summer are:

• Love's Labour's Lost- which I saw at the RSC last year but want to read.
• Romeo and Juliet- obviously I know the story, I've read bits in class and even performed the prologue but never read it.
• Macbeth- Again the same as R&J, I even used a scene of this in my GCSE coursework!

So they are all plays I am familiar with so I'm hoping to understand them! If you want to join in and pick 3  plays yourself or read some of his poetry that would be awesome and we could fall in love with Shakespeare together!

Speak soon,

Jade xx