I think it’s fairly obvious that I love reading. More often than not, I read books that have me delighting in the quality of the writing or the cleverness of the story. But sometimes I come across a passage that truly stands out, where I stop and say to myself, “Whoa”. Such a wonderful moment [….]
Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy Hardy’s novel of romantic entanglements and farming rural life, set in fictional nineteenth-century county Wessex is the perfect book for a summer read. This tale of Bathsheba Everdene and Gabriel Oak, first published in 1874, takes its time, and let’s the reader settle into time and place. [….]
