Welcome to yet another Book Review Tuesday! Today we are again featuring a combo book review/top ten list – with a twist. I like the twist, have you noticed? (teehee) So here it is – a book review/top ten list that is composed entirely of books that I have not read. You read that right. I have not read a single one of these. I have tried. Multiple times. For each book. But have never been able to get through any of them. This is despite their classic status and despite the fact that I have picked each of them up any number of times.

Now I know I am going to take some grief for many of these. For example, I have already exchanged thoughts with Man of la Book on Don Quixote – he loves it and thinks it is one of the classics that shouldn’t be missed; I love the story/concept and have seen and loved movie/musical versions but have never been able to get into the actual reading. (This is a great blog, by the way, with a ton of very interesting book reviews and insightful comments/thoughts, and worth checking out.) I have more than a few dedicated Shakespeare fan-friends who will be shocked and appalled that Hamlet made it onto the list. While I love that story too (again, with plays and movie versions being high on my list of fun things to watch) I do not enjoy reading plays very often and find Shakespearean English much easier to listen to and translate/understand than to read. Continue reading Top Ten Lists: Books I Should Read but Just Cannot Finish