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Classics Challenge {July}
I’ve been very naughty this month and haven’t read my current Classics Challenge book, A Voyage Out, for even one minute. So I was really happy to see that for this month’s challenge I can talk about any of the books I’ve completed for the challenge this year! Which is only two, but still! Here…
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More Rosamond Lehmann
“People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. Storytelling, which is the basis of the novel, has always existed and always will.” In a fit of Rosamond Lehmann enthusiasm I searched…
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RLRW:A Note in Music by Rosamond Lehmann
I bought A Note in Music last year after reading Invitation to the Waltz , which I was instantly smitten with. I loved Lehmann’s unique writing style and knew that I wanted to explore more of her writing. Thanks to Florence and Rosamond Lehmann Reading Week I’ve been given the perfect opportunity to do just that.…
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My Top Five Books of the Year Through June
I’ve read 24 books so far this year and most of them have been very enjoyable. There are some, though, that sparkle and shine in my memory like sunshine on the water. These books are precious experiences, novels full of power and delight. They made my soul sing. 1. The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay…
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Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple
Greenbanks was my Persephone Secret Santa gift from Danielle way back in December. It was exactly what I wanted and I was so happy to get it, but then I put it on my bedside table and didn’t even think about it again until a few weeks ago when I was searching for a really…
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A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
I’m very quietly participating in this year’s Paris in July event. Last year I was too ambitious and disappointed with myself when I didn’t accomplish my French-related reading goals, so this year I am only reading two short books (and maybe, possibly a third if I can swing it) that will allow me to visit France vicariously…
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A Small Town 4th of July Parade
It has always been a tradition in my family to spend Independence Day with my grandparents and other relatives in Springerville, Arizona. Springerville is a small town in the White Mountains of the state and it is where my mom was born and raised. It is joined with the town of Eagar and together they…
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4 Outstanding American Classics
In honor of Independence Day (which I spent in a small mountain town in Arizona yesterday) I am presenting to you four of my favorite American novels. This is a diverse collection because, as I have written about in the past, I really don’t read a lot of books written by Americans so the ones…
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Howards End by E.M. Forster
“There is certainly no rest for us on the earth. But there is happiness and as Margaret descended the mound on her lover’s arm, she felt that she was having her share.” Margaret and Helen Schlegel, one of the best sister acts in literature, fatefully entwine themselves with the stolid Wilcox family and their lives…
A Certain Fondness 