TBR Jar Review: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Challenges: Around the Year in 52 Books: A historical fiction I have been meaning to read this classic for a while (that’s why it was on my TBR obviously), but I’ve just never gotten around to it until now. This book follows Scarlett, a young (very young!) lady in the American South during the Civil War in the 1860s. Before the war starts all she wants is to find a good husband and get married. When she can’t have the one she wants she throws a fit and marries someone else in a rage. And this is really the crux of her character. She is selfish and vain, and continues to be so, even in the face of all the struggles the war puts her through. At first I felt like I really couldn’t blame her, she is after all VERY young (15 at the start of the book I believe) but after a few years of hardship and misery, and seeing young men cut down in their prime on the battlefields and languishing away in hospitals, still all she cares about is how she looks in her new hat. So I go...