Get excited people! Trish of Love, Laughter, and a Touch of Insanity and I are going to start reading Vanity Fair in the middle of February. So Happy Valentine's Day to all of you. Here are the top ten reasons you should read it with us!
1) Charlotte Bronte dedicated the second edition of Jane Eyre to William Makepeace Thackeray, seriously!
2) It's on the list of 1,001 Books to Read Before You Die list
3) Stanley Kubrick wanted to make a film version of it in the 1970s. Weird.
4) The BBC's Big Read poll listed it as one of the "Nation's Best-loved Novel" in 2003.
5) Trish is awesome and she's co-hosting with me!
6) It has a magazine named after it.
7) It was published in 1847 so it qualifies for any Victorian or 19th Century reading challenges you may have committed to.
8) The hashtag is #YoureSoVain
9) The author's middle name is Makepeace, which is a pretty sweet name. As in, make peace with the fact that you're going to do this readalong!
10) You know you want to do it and it will be super laid back (no weekly check-ins).
We will be starting February 15th, checking in once in the middle on March 1st and posting our final thoughts on March 15th. That's about as easy and simple as it gets!
I hope you join in the fun! We'll have an official Linky post up on February 15th when we start.
