Tag: classic fiction

Wuthering Heights: a story of dysfunctional family and generational abuse. Photo of hardcover copy of Wuthering Heights against a green background by Bonnie Way.

Bonnie Way March 3, 2026

Wuthering Heights: a story of dysfunctional family and generational abuse

Mothering

"A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bare-headed, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes." opening sentence of A Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Bonnie Way April 8, 2025

The Scarlet Letter (a Telemachos Guided Reading Edition)

Curriculum Reviews

Family-friendly Audiobooks: stories to enjoy together. Photo of headphones over a stack of books via Depositphotos.

Bonnie Way March 16, 2023

Family-friendly Audiobooks: stories to enjoy together

Kids Books

Brideshead Revisited by Evelen Waugh, on a table at Starbucks with a coffee nearby.

Bonnie Way September 5, 2019

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh {book club selection}

Fiction

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

Bonnie Way July 22, 2016

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

Entertainment

Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is a timeless classic (here's why)

Bonnie Way January 25, 2013

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is a timeless classic (here’s why)

Entertainment

"Yet among those slow, boring passages are the parts that keep readers coming back to Dickens today: the sentences you want to read two or three times, because they are so perfect; the hilarious and easily pictured characters; and the plot twists and turns to figure out." review of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Bonnie Way February 8, 2010

A Good Old Dickens Novel: Little Dorrit

Fiction

Anne Bronte's novels

Bonnie Way September 4, 2009

Reading Anne Bronte

Entertainment

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Bonnie Way April 7, 2008

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Entertainment

"Franklin Blake is narrating the story when the suspicion of stealing the diamond falls on him, causing greater confusion over the “whodunit” since, being inside Franklin’s head, we believe his professions of innocence and are as confused as he is about the theft." Review of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.

Bonnie Way October 13, 2006

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (book review)

Fiction