Irene Ein Ein itibaren Cabeça Gorda
This is a historical novel set in England during the reign of Queen Mary. The novel revolves around the main character, Queen Mary's Fool, a young jewish woman who dresses like a man. The book is very interesting, in that the main action takes place at the court of the Queen.
Read this one closely. One sentence buried in a paragraph changes everything. Subtle and true to a pastor's life, especially in its incomprehensible horrors and almost incommunicable joys. Very few books I know make sense of a true, liberal, unflinching vocation to ministry, as this one does. The "transcendence" promised on the book jacket is hard-won.
I was beginning to feel like I hadn't read any classics lately, so, somehow, I was led to Oliver Twist. I guess because when you think classics, you think Dickens. I guess Dickens was all about colorful, multi-layered characters. I felt like I should be making a list of characters while I was reading to try to do a matching quiz that my teacher would be giving out later. There was Oliver, Fagin, the artful Dodger, Bill Sikes, Nancy. Dickens was also about plot...always linking this character back to another by "coincidence." One thing that I learned was that when Oliver asks for more supper ("please, sir, can I have some more")...it's not for him, it's for another boy. They all drew straws to see who would ask, and Oliver drew the short straw.