are you there god? it’s me, margaret. is the iconic story of a young girl on the brink of adolescence who moves from New York City to the suburbs.
All in Classics
I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
File this under classics I thought I had read and realized after one chapter that I had not. A gorgeous book about a girl coming of age in a time and place when being young, Black and female made survival alone a major achievement.
CATCH-22
Considering the list of “books I should have read, but somehow never did,” Catch-22 was at the top. Had it not been for my son and his self-generated challenge to read some of the books he had never read, I may never have tackled this one. Oh! And then Hulu recently produced Catch-22 as a six-part series starring George Clooney, which further incentivized me to read the book.
THE ALCHEMIST
For me The Alchemist is the perfect example of that category of books—super famous, oft-quoted but that I only pretend to have read. Embarrassing confession: I actually read a passage from The Alchemist at my brother and sister-in-law’s wedding without having read the book. But now I have and I need hide my ignorance no longer!
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
Every once in a while, I like to read a classic novel that I feel I should have read, but haven’t. Especially when I can pick it up for a few bucks at a library sale! And although I enjoyed my trip to Victorian-era New York, I was expecting more from the first novel by a woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize. For example, that it might have a female protagonist…