Finishing #100

I am finally finishing Gone With the Wind today. I loved the book even more this time around than I did the first time, but I have found that loving the book and loving the movie are very different. Although I can't imagine anyone else playing the leads better than Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, Margaret Mitchell describes Rhett and Scarlett so wonderfully in the book that even if I had never seen the movie the plot would play in my head. I guess that's the point of a great novel and I have been away from fiction for so long that I forgot how enjoyable it can be when left in the hands of a gifted writer who gets that once-in-a-lifetime idea and translates it to the page.

Gone With the Wind was a pretty good test for me to see if I am really dedicated to this project. Being the first book on the list, it would have been really easy for me to just drop the idea and move on to something less than 700 pages. But frankly, I do give a damn. I made it through and I am looking forward to the next string of books on the list that I have never read and are, blessedly, shorter. So tomorrow is another day and the start of The Hound of Baskervilles!