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Possession by A.S. Byatt
Possession is a novel that strongly captured my imagination and my heart when I first read it as a teenager. I loved the dense, layered, symbol-filled narrative that neatly weaves together the tale of two Victorian poets and their forbidden love with a group of contemporary academics and their search for groundbreaking evidence of that…
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Pryday #14
It’s Black Friday here in the States, but I have no interest in entering the fray. Shopping frustrates me under normal circumstances so I blissfully stay home while everyone else is out fighting for that amazing deal. I’d rather use the time to read as I am back at work tomorrow, although I might venture…
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It’s Time to Read the Classics
I’ve decided to jump on the Classics Challenge bandwagon, this one hosted by Katherine at November’s Autumn. This is a different type of challenge – the guidelines are here – but basically you post on the 4th of every month about the current classic you’re reading or that you’ve recently finished. My goal is to…
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Pryday #13
I missed Pryday last week, but am back this week with a question about commenting. Does anyone else ever feel nervous or ambivalent about commenting on blogs? Or am I just a weirdo? I sometimes get a huge complex about my comments not being good enough, smart enough or articulate enough when I want to…
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Attention Readers in the UK: Help Karyn at A Penguin a Week!
Karyn from A Penguin a Week needs help from UK residents to locate used bookstores that sell vintage Penguins. See her plea for more details!
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One Book, Two Book, Three Book Meme…
Greetings, friends! The malaise of fall seems to have descended here at Gudrun’s Tights and I have been feeling tired and lethargic for the past 3 weeks and, unfortunately, uninterested in reading. It seems funny to have seasonal melancholy here in Arizona where the sun is perpetually bright and it is a pleasant 70 degrees, but…
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Pryday #12
The library I work for is entering phase one of a major remodeling project to be completed, hopefully, by February. The library is nearly 12 years old and is in dire need of new carpeting (heavily trafficked areas are currently held together with duct tape), paint and a better configuration of the furniture and computers.…
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Hallowread: 3 Short Stories
The night before Halloween I finished The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and thought that would be the only spooky reading I’d be able to fit in this year. Halloween night, however, I was in dire need of a hot bath after shifting books all day at the library in preparation to move the shelves for…
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Pryday #11
Hi, all, I hope you’ve had a lovely week of reading. This week for Pryday, let’s talk scary. I haven’t done much this year to get in the Halloween spirit, but I have been watching the World Series which has been scarily good 🙂 I did decide a few days ago to read The Legend…
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Classics Circuit: The Witch of Ravensworth by George Brewer
The Witch of Ravensworth was written by George Brewer, a sailor turned attorney turned writer, and it was published in 1808. According to the Valancourt Books website the witch in the novel “is a precursor to later Gothic literary monsters like Frankenstein and Dracula.” The very last sentence of The Witch of Ravensworth sums up the…
A Certain Fondness 