I do not exactly remember why I decided to read Agnes Grey as a part of the Classics Club challenge. The only possible explanation is that I wanted to stick to something which might be an easy and light read. Then I always liked re-reading the Jane Austen type of novels and this seemed to suit that category, yet by an author I have not read before.
Reading a book is easier, but writing about it here is much more difficult these days. I try to force myself to write about the Classics because reading and writing about them is the very intend of the Classics Club challenge. Your challenge is not fulfiled until you actually write about the classics you have read. And that task seems to be much easier said than done.
Agnes Grey turned out to be a story just I thought it would be – an easy and light read and I didn’t have to exert myself to finish it and was not bored.
Agnes finding her family in a tough financial situation decides to take up the job of being a governess to children of well-to-do family. She sets out to do her task to the best of her ability, but her pupils doesn’t turn out to be so favorable to her instruction as she would have preferred and this leads to lots of hardships for her.
Anne Bronte’s writing is fluid, Agnes’s character is almost perfect, yet there was nothing notable in the whole reading experience. I cannot recall a single sentence that I wanted to highlight on my kindle. May be this is the fault I found with the book.
There are quite a few characters in the book, but none of them made much impression on me except Miss Murray. Otherwise Agnes Grey is a read and forget kind of story. Nevertheless I am happy that I read it.
