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Weekly Post September 8
This wasn’t a very good reading week for me. I had monstrous allergies Monday – Thursday that made me hate the world. I suffered through the work day then parked myself on the couch to watch TV as soon as I got home. Reading was too much for my brain. Thankfully, by Thursday evening I…
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Reading Notes
Last week I finished reading four books in five days. I seem to go through these phases of reading very intensely for a week or so and then barely reading at all for the next week. At the moment I am reading The Submission by Amy Waldman for my book club and I like it,…
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New Arrivals
I haven’t bought very many books lately, but I had the urge a few weeks ago for a little book splurge and these are the result. The Group by Mary McCarthy – I’ve read this book before as a teenager, but can’t really remember it now. I love books about women’s lives and this book…
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Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Me Before You is not the type of book that I’m usually drawn to. I had seen the multiple glowing reviews and testaments from bloggers and other readers, but it just didn’t appeal to me when it was released last year. So I’m not really sure what drew me to pick it up when I…
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Book Club: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
I read Rebecca when I was a teen, but haven’t read it since so I added it to my book club’s list of possibilities thinking that it would be a wonderful way to slip a classic into our selections. The August host chose it because she hadn’t read it before and really likes Gothic novels,…
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Spinning Again
It’s time to spin again. The Classics Club announced the next spin today and I am eager to participate. I drew a great book with the last spin (Revolutionary Road, which I loved but never blogged about) so I am looking forward to seeing what I will be reading this time around. My list is…
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Cover Collection: Cranford
1. Dover Thrift Editions // 2. Vintage Classics // 3. Oxford World’s Classics 4. Pocket Penguin Classics // 4. Oxford World’s Classics // 5. Penguin English Library Like nearly everyone else on the planet, I fell in love with the Cranford TV series when it came out in 2008. I think I’ve watched it four…
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Fin & Lady by Cathleen Schine
“Fin’s funeral suit was a year old, worn three times, already too small”. I knew I wanted to read this book when I saw that it takes place in the mid-sixties, one of my favorite time periods. I love the music, the fashion, the films and the changing social and cultural norms. Fin & Lady…
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My Top Five Books of the Year Through June (2013)
I’ve read lots of pleasant books this year, books that were well-written, compelling stories with believable characters. But I haven’t read many books that changed my world like I did last year. Nothing that is on the same level as Excellent Women, Death Comes for the Archbishop or The Song of Achilles. Therefore, I found…
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The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford
“Ralph was ten and Molly was eight when they had scarlet fever.” When I got home from Colorado I was seized with the desire to read about the American West. Traveling through that dramatic landscape just demanded it. As much as I love reading books set in England or among the privileged in the eastern…
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