The only two Dickens novels I have completed are A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol. What assigned books, if any, had an impact on you?
School Days, School Days
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I can’t remember that far back.
Catcher in the Rye, assigned by Sister Mary Micheal my senior year of high school.
Julius Caesar and The Odyssey- taught me that they were not ” too hard” but instead, delightful.
Animal Farm was when I began to realize that schoolyard brutality never dies.