I'm not really a fan of classic books like Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" - though Mariam made me read the zombie version of it - and Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre". You can just count the classic books I've read and so far, I've managed to read "Emma" by Jane Austen,though, only because I watched the movie first, - and I like Gweneth Paltrow - Anne Frank's "A Diary of a Girl" and "Emily Dickenson's Diary" by Emily Dickenson herself, which I've read ages ago.
But one of my all time favorite would be "Daddy Long Legs" by Jean Webster, 1912. It's about this girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott who grew up in an orphanage and got a full college scholarship to Lincoln Girls Memorial College, from a rich man who visited their orphanage. She writes him letters of her whereabouts at school, calling him "Daddy Long Legs" as she only saw his shadow from far that time he went to their orphanage. Her letters continued to be sent to her mysterious sponsor through her college life...she grew a desire to meet him one day, blinded by the fact that they knew each other all along.
I was swooning pathetically while reading through Jervis's ("Daddy Long Legs") words of confession of undying love for Judy. *laughs* O, enough the overwhelming romance. But yeah, this book is totally a must-read for those little romance-freaks out there! :)
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