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I'm getting ready to read this book for the Better Than The Movie Book Club. :)

I am currently reading this book. I am also reading it for the July 2016 TIOLI challenge on LibraryThing to TIOLI: Insert Your Book Title in the Blank: On my summer vacation I am going to visit ________________. I am using Sparknotes to help me understand this book. So far, so good.

I did go back today to read a bit about the Life of Oscar Wilde now to get a bit more insight into his writing.

I very much enjoyed reading this classic. It's one I've wanted to read for years because my mom many years ago said she enjoyed it. I finally got to it after it was chosen by my online book club.

This was quite the horror story. I enjoyed picturing in my mind everything that was happening. It got creepier as it went along. It had a sudden and powerful ending.

I also liked reading about the undercurrents of homosexuality in this story which had been published in 1891. I know that the author was gay and wondered how this would play out in reading his works. In this book, it was clear that the painter Basil Hallward obviously adored the protagonist, Dorian Gray. Gray's other close friend, Lord Henry Wotton, was always a part of his life. On the other hand, Gray never had a fully satisfactory relationship with women in this story and was still a bachelor at this tale's end.

There were two things I liked a bit less about this book. Firstl, I had the Russian edition of the English version. Therefore I could not read the footnotes which were all in Russian. I started looking up terms and people I didn't know, but that got old pretty soon.

I also didn't like when the story went off on long tangents of conversation. I especially disliked the part where the author itemized all of Gray's studies and reading. I thought that part would never end.

Nevertheless, this is a fun and worthwhile read. I definitely would recommend it to others who like to read classics and horror stories.

Happy reading!

Caught!

Thank you for returning this book to the Little Free Library of Twinbrook (#7720). I'll be saving it to go out for Round #2.

Going out for Round #2...

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I'm releasing this book for the following BookCrossing challenge:

*** The 2016 September Sapphire Release Challenge hosted by Plum-crazy. This book has a shade of blue (blue-gray) in the title.

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