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  • Sunday Bulletin 2/9

    The best thing about this past week was that I finally picked up steam in my reading again and it’s all due to making a plan. Once again, I’ve learned that I read more and better by making a reading list and following it scrupulously. I finished Mrs.Tim Carries On (brilliant) and am almost finished…

    Anbolyn

    February 9, 2014
    Sunday Bulletin, Uncategorized
  • Sunday Bulletin 2/2

    Hello there – I hope your weekend has been lovely. This last week of January was an off one for me. I think allergies, lack of sleep and a general malaise made me a bit loopy and daffy and add to that an aching hip and tail bone and I was a hobbling space cadet.…

    Anbolyn

    February 2, 2014
    Sunday Bulletin, Uncategorized
  • Stevenson and Sharma

    I’ve decided to only post my thoughts on two books at a time instead of three. I think writing about three books at a time makes a post too long. Also I am feeling pretty loopy due to allergies so I hope these following thoughts make sense. Mrs. Tim of the Regiment by D.E. Stevenson…

    Anbolyn

    January 30, 2014
    Classic Novels, Contemporary Novels, Uncategorized
    Akhil Sharma, D.E. Stevenson
  • 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…

    Anbolyn

    January 26, 2014
    Sunday Bulletin, Uncategorized
  • 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…

    Anbolyn

    January 22, 2014
    Cover Collection, Uncategorized
  • 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…

    Anbolyn

    January 19, 2014
    Reading, Sunday Bulletin, Uncategorized
  • 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…

    Anbolyn

    January 15, 2014
    Classic Novels, Contemporary Novels, Uncategorized
    Angela Thirkell, Donna Tartt, Yrsa Sigurdardottir
  • 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…

    Anbolyn

    January 12, 2014
    Sunday Bulletin, Uncategorized
    Angela Thirkell, Katharine Weber, Theodore Dreiser, Yrsa Sigurdardottir
  • 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…

    Anbolyn

    January 7, 2014
    Challenges, Uncategorized
    Wilkie Collins
  • 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…

    Anbolyn

    January 5, 2014
    Challenges, Sunday Bulletin, Uncategorized
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