Away to England...

I don't really know what to talk about! I am going to England on Monday for two months, which will be amazing. I hope to update photos and thoughts as I traipse about the UK. I am so excited! But I am going to miss my roommates so much. I can't say how much those girls have blessed my life. And I know no one is really going to read this, but that's okay. I don't exactly know what I want to focus my blog on. I think writing about literature is a fantastic idea! I will have to start writing book reviews, and any essays on classic novels. I just finished a British Novel class at BYU, and that was fantastic. The last book I read was Tess of the D'Urbervilles. I really like Thomas Hardy, but he was almost a cynic at times. The book is so intense, although it doesn't necessarily appear that it would be on a quick perusal. It is beautifully written, especially if you like natural settings and landscape details. But it's more than the language he uses for description and rhetoric. It's the driving emotion behind Tess' character. She is so real and human, yet at the same almost fairy like and ethereal. I think those who have gone through the same experience her character does will particularly connect with her spiritually and emotionally. She goes through this tragic journey; well, in some way all the characters do. But though I was almost speechless at the end, it seems that despite the things that go awfully wrong in the story, it never looses a sense of hope- but then, that all depends on how you interpret things. I'd recommend this book in a heartbeat; it's a definite part of classic British literature!