bailedDang, so close to the end, but this chapter about Tess of the d'Ubervilles and sexual assault is the last straw. This book is from the 90's and is about Victorian literature, but I'm alive right now and I don't have to fucking read it.
The author just posited that The Picture of Dorian Gray is disturbing from the first paragraph because the reader knows that roses and lilac are not simultaneously in their strongest bloom and that seems like a lot to expect from me, an idiot.
I feel like the only thing I'm learning from this book is that there are a number of classic novels I have no interest in reading...
In case you were wondering, the answer of the title question (at least in the author's eyes) is "probably, but you can't prove it."
Gotta say, it's pretty bold of me to read this book when I have read Very Little of the classic literature discussed within! #maverick #insufferable
Now for something Completely Different!
Loving the need for a "translation" of the Yorkshire dialect ?
Library haul for the weekend. I'm so glad it's the weekend!
Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction | 
