Back in Week Two, I encountered D.H. Lawrence and Lady Chatterley – and mentioned then that I was dreading his other two appearances on our list.

Well, having stalled as long as I could, my library hold on Lawrence’s Women in Love came around and I could drag my feet no longer.

Unlike some other works on our list, I had not read Women in Love before – but I have heard it called Lawrence’s best work. However, enduring this, what felt like pages of blathering on about the worst people in the world and their desires – all I can say is that Lawrence is not for me.

*Also, much misogynism – women are often called children – and repressed homosexual desires (to the point calling the novel Men in Love would have at least been honest and more palatable), ridiculous sexual metaphors (so many, so unpleasant), and absolutely revolting racism and classism. Oh, yay! What a fun read.*

Finally, if it is true that the Birkin character is Lawrence’s appearance in the novel, well, belated best wishes to the friends and family of D.H. Lawrence. #ohmyword

Seriously, as always, the point of this project is not that I enjoy all of the books.

The point is that you – and everyone else – has the right to freely read and decide for yourself.

*For our next banned book, I’m in the middle of Ulysses – and I’ll now be stalling some more on Lawrence’s last book on our list, Sons and Lovers – because I just can’t even yet. 😉 *

Be well, everybody. Take care of yourselves and each other.

Grace and Blessings.

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Awakening – Kate Chopin

Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence

Animal Farm – George Orwell

1984 – George Orwell

Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

A Separate Peace – John Knowles

Lolita – Vladmir Nabokov

A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner

LOTR – The Fellowship of The Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien

LOTR – The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien

LOTR – The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien

Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

Beloved – Toni Morrison

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

The Call of the Wild – Jack London

Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin

Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence