Books

Here are some of my favourite books! I've described each of my favourite books and rambled to varying lengths about how much I love them. I might do book reviews here in the future, or at least crosspost some of my GoodReads reviews, so watch this space! You can see my Goodreads year in books for 2021 here and for 2022 here!

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - Reader, I love this book; let me explain why. This book is one of the most passionate, amazing (and bomb-dot-com, but that's not a dignified adjective) novels that I have read in my time on this Earth. Charlotte Brontë wrote a book filled with simple, imperfect characters, and showed a beautiful theology of God's redemption and love, as well as the beautiful joys of found family and lifelong love, and the benefits as well of finding yourself and staying true to yourself and, above all, to God. This is the prime example of how someone can change for the better. As anyone who knows me in real life will tell you, I adore this book!
• Georgette Heyer - She may well be my favourite author! I've only read one and a half of her books as of writing this, but all that I've read of hers has been enrapturing and page-turning like few novels are anymore for me. Georgette Heyer, for me, is the pinnacle of pleasure reading---whilst for some other authors I can take a good week and a half to two weeks to read one of their books, I absolutely fly through Georgette Heyer's because they're so good. She's called the Queen of Regency Romance, and for good reason---she's defined the genre and executed it in a way that nobody else that I've ever read ever has!
• The Her Majesty The Queen investigates series - This is a lovely series featuring Queen Elizabeth as an amateur sleuth! They're the pinnacle of cozy, somehow feel-good murder mysteries because of the rapport between Queen Elizabeth and Rozie, her assistant/proxy sleuth, and the occasional cute moments between Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. I really like these books and I'm so looking forward to reading book 3!
• Time and Chance by Kim Campbell - This is an honest, humour-filled look back at the political career of Canada's shortest-serving prime minister. She knows how to crack a joke and how to make her story interesting whilst not betraying the truth of the situation. I recommend this to anyone else who has a weirdly especial affinity for Canada in the 1990s.
• The All Creatures Great and Small series by James Herriot - These are pure comfort reads. They make you laugh, they make you cry, and they warm your heart, all with stories of animals and farmers---often examples of finding the great in the everyday. If you're ever feeling down, read one of these books and I promise you you'll feel better!
• Other classics - I'm rather a fan of British classics in general, and I've read quite a lot: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell; Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion by Jane Austen; Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë; and a few others as well. I especially like all of Jane Austen's books, and I loved North and South as well when I read it for the first time. Granted, these books and Georgette Heyer's are probably giving me dangerously high expectations for men, but at least I'm definitely not going to marry a Mr. Collins! (I hope and pray)
• Miscellaneous comic book treasuries - I was practically raised on my mother's Calvin and Hobbes collection, and eventually her Foxtrot books, and since I got copies of my own of some and discovered Pearls Before Swine, I've basically become addicted. I can normally read one of these treasuries in a day or two---it's not exactly Charles Dickens---and it's always a fun time.