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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…
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Classics Challenge {June}
Here I am leaving my Classics Challenge post ’til the end of the month again. I left it late because I was hoping I’d have more material to work with for this month’s prompt the further I read in The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf. But the majority of the book takes place on a…
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The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Can you call yourself a fan of Victorian fiction without ever having read Anthony Trollope? Hmmm….that’s what I thought. This is a question I’ve asked myself for years, but I have avoided Trollope because he seemed so intimidating and overwhelming. As I’ve read more and more reviews of his books on your blogs, however, I…
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Have You Heard About RLRW?
What are you doing in July? Can you make time to read a truly wonderful author, an author who once said “some contemporary novels are apt to be dull, because the concept of guilt about moral lapses doesn’t exist any more. How can you write an interesting novel when there are no secrets, and nothing…
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Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
I’ve been dying to recommend this book to you. It is one of those books that I want to push into the hands of every reader I know. I’ve told quite a few people at the library about it and now I want to tell you all about it too. Code Name Verity is the…
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Reading Interrupted by Cuteness
Do you ever have those weeks when life gets in the way of reading? This past week was one of those for me. After finishing Howards End on Tuesday night I didn’t read another page until Friday evening. And it was all because of this little guy: My niece, Bella, found this sweet little kitten…
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The Solitary House by Lynn Shepherd
The Solitary House (called Tom-All-Alone’s in the UK) is a dark Victorian mystery that uses characters and plot points from two grand Victorian mysteries – The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and Bleak House by Charles Dickens – to create its own riveting tale. Charles Maddox is a young private investigator, an outspoken man…
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BEA Buzz Books
Book Expo America is next week in New York and I am not going. But, that’s okay – I discovered a great way to experience some of the new fall fiction without having to buy a plane ticket or hotel room. Through Netgalley I downloaded a copy of BEA Buzz Books. This little gem, produced…
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