Don’t hate me as I know it’s an unpopular opinion but I didn’t like the prose of on earth we are briefly gorgeous, I was drawn in by the title and thought I’d love it but I found it hard to engage with. It sounded like it was trying so hard to be profound but was just non sensical. “Is that what art is? To be touched thinking what we feel is ours when, in the end, it was someone else, in longing, who finds us” Like ?? 😭

To help you with adding some classics, as a bit of a classics gal myself:

I read the bell jar recently and loved it. My other favourite classics are: pride and prejudice, Emma, the catcher in the rye, the picture of Dorian grey, 1984, a clockwork orange, lord of the flies, letters to a young poet, to kill a mockingbird. I also like most of Shakespeare. I’ve just started Virginia Woolf ‘to the lighthouse’ and not sure if I’d recommend it as it’s not been the most engaging read so far. Next on my list are The Divine Comedy, The Iliad and Harper Lee’s sequel novel Go Set a Watchman, but I haven’t started these yet so can’t say if I’d recommend or not :)