Hi, remember when our book club discussion for this book was December 1st but I didn’t finish the book until January 23rd? And also how I’ve been reading it since November 13th? Because I do. I definitely remember all of that. Ultimately, I’m really glad I did the audio version of this book. I don’t think I could have finished it otherwise. I previously got about 1/3 of the way through this book when I tried reading it in high school, but it defeated me then. The beginning 20% or […]
If Shakespeare, Dickens, and Christie Co-Wrote a Book
One of my students just read The Count of Monte Cristo last year and has been on my case about reading it. I couldn’t help chuckling when the Cannonball Book Club decided to read it. It’s like karma’s trying to tell me something! While I knew that this was going to be a long read, I was looking forward to it. I’ve seen Wishbone’s and Jim Caviezel’s versions of The Count so I knew the basic plot of the novel. I didn’t know how the […]
The book that ate November (The Count of Monte Cristo)
4.5 stars Young sailor Edmond Dantés is well-meaning, kind and really rather naive, wanting nothing more than to make enough money to take care of his elderly father and marry his beloved Mercedes. There are other, less well-meaning people in his life who want what he has and are prepared to frame Dantés for treason to get these things. While celebrating his engagement to Mercedes, Dantés is arrested, charged with aiding in a plot to restore the exiled Napoleon to the throne. The anonymous scheming […]
It’s Finally Time to Say Goodbye, Dear Count
I have already said many words about The Count of Monte Cristo, since it entered our lives as the final of the four #CannonBookClub choices for 2016. It was a great idea I had, pick 6 books, three male authors and three female, all predating 1920 which had film adaptations, so we could honor our Pajiban roots, and I could easily check a Read Harder Task off the list (I needed to compare and contrast a book with its movie, you see). Thank you, my […]