“On the occasion of Charles Dickens’ 201st anniversary on February 7th, 2013, Fanda Classiclit will be dedicating the whole month for Celebrating Dickens! An event where we will show our loves and admiration to Dickens by reading his works (books, short stories, poems, plays etc.), reading books about Dickens, watching his movies adaptations, sharing our thoughts about Dickens, analyzing his famous book’s characters, or sharing […]
The Classics Club monthly meme is another way to bring members of The Classics Club together. The post for the month will go up on the main page of this blog on the 2nd of the month, and you’ll have all month to respond over at your blog. Q: What is your favorite memory of Dickens’ A […]
Re-review, is that even a word? Well it will be for the next few sentences. By this I mean do you review a book a second time on your blog? I reread Harry Potter every year but is it necessary to review it again and again and again. I recently looked back on some of […]
To celebrate her birthday Melissa at Must Read Faster is hosting the Happy Birthday Me Read-A-Thon running through out the weekend. I’ll be using this post to hold my progress. The Books: The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by […]
As of late, I’ve been signing up for read-a-thons and when they approach I drop them due to comintments made in the interim. These are two I know I can keep. Happy Birthday Me Read-A-Thon hosted by Must Read Faster It’s almost time y’all! That special time that happens every single year…My birthday! Yup, I know you all […]
I am an extremely private person so I really debated writing this post but I think it is a topic that must be addressed. November is epilepsy awareness month. This is a very important issue to me as I was diagnosed with the disorder at the age of five. For twelve years, we struggled with […]
Summer has always been a slow blogging time for me but as the summer months come to a close I am ready to jump back into the blogging world! Here are two bookish events that will be filling the last months of the year for me. I started, half-heartedly to reread Gone with the Wind […]
As the title states, I ask how do you write your reviews? Are you a note taker, studying the text meticulously as you read or do you wait until you have finished to sit down and share your thoughts in a collective manner? I had been a sit down at the conclusion kind of girl […]
After missing February’s monthly review I began to question, are posts on what I accomplished in said month really necessary? It is time intensive linking to all reviews and bookish happenings during the month. It may be just me but these posts can be an emotional roller coaster (of which I hate) if I read […]
On the fourth of each month Kathrine at November’s Autumn is posting a prompt for the current classic you are reading to coincide with her classics challenge. This month’s prompt is the cover: The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins Level 1What are your first impressions as you look at the cover? I was first struck by calmness […]