The Sun Also Rises - 52 books in 52 weeks

2014 Reading Challenge

Tessa has read 10 books toward her goal of 52 books.
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Thanks for tuning in to another edition of my 52 books in 52 weeks challenge. I'm tracking my progress on Goodreads, an awesome website that you should definitely check out, and maybe start your own reading challenge!

I fell a little bit in love with Ernest Hemingway in 6th grade, when we had to read The Old Man and the Sea

. I fell back in love with him after watching Midnight in Paris

, but that was a whole different story and probably had way more to do with the attractive Corey Stoll playing his character than anything else. Someone asked me if I liked Hemingway and after an emphatic "Yes!" I realized I had really only experienced one novella and one movie crush, and that definitely wasn't enough to go on. I decided to give some more of his work a shot, and my book guru Adie told me to start with The Sun Also Rises

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I didn't hate it, but it was admittedly difficult for me to love. It's kind of like what I'm going through right now reading The Count of Monte Cristo - I appreciate the beautify writing and the wonderful story, but I'm just not quite smart enough to read it with ease. Maybe my intelligence isn't the hindrance, but I'm definitely not familiar enough with Spanish tourist culture and lingo in the 1920s to breeze through this novel without my iPhone ready to google some terms.

3.5/5 Stars