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Sunday Bulletin 1/26
Hello there! I hope your week has been lovely. This has been one of those weeks for me where reading slid off the radar. I think the only reading I did was a few chapters a night before bed. There’s no good reason for it, just my brain needing a break I suppose, although I…
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Cover Collection: War and Peace
1.Oxford World’s Classics // 2. Vintage Classics Hardback // 3. Pocket Penguin Classics 4. Penguin Classics // 5. Random House // 6. Modern Library Classics I have never read War and Peace, but these covers are incredibly enticing and make me want to. I love how ornate and beautiful they are, even the simple Penguin…
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Sunday Bulletin 1/19
Happy Sunday! How has your weekend been? I’m enjoying the third day of my four day weekend. I had Friday off for working last Sunday and tomorrow is MLK Day and the library is closed so I was lucky enough to get four days off in a row. It always feels like a miracle to…
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Tartt, Thirkell and Sigurdardottir
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown and Company, 2013) – There’s not much to say about The Goldfinch that hasn’t already been said, but I can tell you that it is a book full of ups and downs, highs (literally) and lows that completely entraps the reader with its mesmerizing, epic story. At nearly 800…
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Sunday Bulletin 1/12
Hello, friends! How has your week been? Mine was rather uneventful, filled with the usual work and chores and reading. I finished one book this week – Angela Thirkell’s High Rising, which I gobbled up and loved. After that, I turned to several other books, including I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, a scary, unsettling…
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The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins
I read this short novella for Wilkie in Winter. It was a bit fluffy and melodramatic so I was not surprised to learn from Helen at She Reads Novels that it was a novelization of a play written by Collins and Charles Dickens. The story centers on Clara Burnham, a young woman with Second Sight…
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Sunday Bulletin 1/5
Hello and welcome to my first Sunday post of the year. I hope 2014 is treating you well so far. I want to take some time to share my goals and plans for reading and blogging this year so that I can refer back to them when I lose my way (which I somehow always…
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Happy, Happy New Year
Best wishes for the new year! I was going to write a post yesterday on my best books of 2013, but the company who hosts my blog had a server outage and I couldn’t access my blog for the majority of the day and then…I became obsessed with a knitting project. So, in lieu of…
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Last Mini Thoughts of the Year
These are the last three books I’ve read, but hopefully not the last of the year – I’m determined to finish The Goldfinch by Wednesday. The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer – The premise of this book could have been brilliant – three different women in different years, 1985, 1942, and…
A Certain Fondness 