One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
This is one of the books that is simply transcendent for me. It almost defies description (not that Iwon’t try). I love it so much that (almost) every word speaks to me but when I try to describe what Lewis does with the elements of the story it is hard to describe it without cheapening [...]
I had only ever read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde which I thought ok, and Treasure Island which was a childhood favorite of Stevenson’s works. Travels With a Donkey seemed a very modern work. Stevenson wrote about religious schism with a self-conciously tolerant air, about poverty and ignorance as local curiosities [...]