In just a little bit I will be beginning The Classics Club’s first ever readathon. My goal is to aim for 10 hours, I know already that I wouldn’t be reading the full 24 because I already have plans for dinner and a movie (I’m rooting for Les Miserables) Anyway, the clock is ticking down […]
Katherine at November’s Autumn is hosting the Turn of the Century Salon, a year long event focusing on novels written during the late 1880s and early 1930s. To participate you simply have to post on a novel published in said time frame. This is a period of literature I have read very little of as […]
I returned from Christmas vacation late last night after spending ten days in Florida. The vacation was great, getting there was a different story… My parents, Grandfather, his girlfriend and I all flew out together, getting up at 4:30 a.m. for a 6am flight. Everything went smoothly, going through security and a prompt boarding time. […]
The new year is approaching, and I’m summing it up with a meme I discovered last year, hosted by The Happily Ever After… entitled My Life According To The Books I Read In 2012 Outside of the mad lib below, my life in books was rather slow, I went through several reading ruts, said rut was caused due […]
The tragedy of waiting too long to write a review is that you are given time to forget, so forgive my vagueness. This was a very surprising read, I was not expecting much more than supermarket fluff and was pleasantly surprised by the intensity and depth the book entailed. Jody is a little girl lost, […]
This novella begins with Ivan’s colleagues of the court upon hearing of his death and bickering over who will be promoted to his place. Already, I smelled greed as a prominent theme. The reader travels to his memorial with said colleagues and finds what appears to be a devoted, distraught widow, Oh how wrong they were… […]
Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish Giving a nod to “best books of the year” is the norm for end of year thoughts, and I love recommending them, but what about those ho-hum books. I am not trying to say that said books were horrible, just not to my taste, and I thought it […]
Jane Austen (would have) turned 237 years old today. Her stories are just as brillant as they were during her lifetime, as was she. That sentence sums it up in a nutshell. I just couldn’t let the day go by without giving her a shout-out!
“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 […]
Well, not all of the Daughters of Eve return, Susan is conspicuously absent with the explanation given by past companions: Peter says that she is “no longer a friend of Narnia” Jill Pole — “she’s interested in nothing now-a-days except nylons and lipstick and invitations.” Eustace Scrubb — “What wonderful memories you have! Fancy you […]