Nicolai

This is a  nostalgic book for me and maybe I'm nicer to it than I should be. It's a short and fairly entertaining read, but there's some elements that aged badly—nothing that couldn't be fixed with a quick edit though

Bored me to death and back

I first read the story for my English literature class and developed a weird hatred for it,  but still wrote about it whenever I could—the themes are pretty explicit. I recently re-read it and I've warmed quite a bit on it. It's a seminal early feminist story, but it's also quite good

Wish it'd be as long as Dracula