A Book in English that I Have Enjoyed Reading

The book which I have just finished reading, Gone with the Wind, written by Margaret Mitchell, really left me both impressed and emotional. Generally speaking, and with great understatement, it tells the story of a young Southern woman who marries a man that she doesn't love, all set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Later on, after experiencing a traumatic series of events, she realized that she does love her husband, but he has already decided to leave her. To be sure, it's not only a story just about romance, but also the thin veneer of civility, the cruel, man-made manipulations of the economy, as well as the immense social and political turmoil of that era.

The overriding theme of this book is that whatever hardship you are in, you should learn to control your own destiny, but that act can only be done by directly facing reality.

Hi Neige. Good job! Whatever changes that I’ve made were merely done to allow your text to sound more natural to my native ears. I hope that this helps you. J.

P.S. I used “A” in the title since I assumed that you have enjoyed reading more than one book in English. If it was, in fact, the only one, then you should use “The” to identify it with specificity as you did in the first sentence [i.e. there is only one book that you just finished reading…]. Similarly, I used "Generally speaking" as that is the only thing that made sense to me. Apologies if my assumptions were incorrect.