"Well, there’s so much to read, and I’m so far behind." Wallace Stegner
It’s time for another Classics Club spin. This is the Classics Club's 37th CC Spin...and mine. Yes you read that correctly. I have participated in EVERY single Classics Club spin, along with Jean @Howling Frog. What is a CC Spin? Simply pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List. … Continue reading Classics Club Spin #37
A bunch of workmen were lying on the grass of the park beside Macquarie Street, in the dinner hour. It was winter, the end of May, but the sun was warm, and they lay there in their shirtsleeves, talking. Some were eating food from paper packages. They were a mixed lot - taxi drivers, a … Continue reading Kangaroo | D.H. Lawrence
It’s time for another Classics Club spin. This is the Classics Club's 36th CC Spin...and mine. Yes you read that correctly. I have participated in EVERY single Classics Club spin, along with Jean @Howling Frog. What is a CC Spin? Simply pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List. … Continue reading Classics Club Spin #36
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about it. The register of his burial was signed by clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. Adam Burgess has begun a new reading practice that he is calling the Contemplative Reading Project. In many ways it corresponds very … Continue reading A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens #ALiteraryChristmas
She locked herself in her room. She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life, before she could walk steadily to the place allotted her. A new searching light had fallen on her husband's character, and she could not judge him leniently: the twenty years in which she had believed … Continue reading Middlemarch Book Eight: Sunset and Sunrise #EliotReadalong
It’s time for another Classics Club spin. This is the Classics Club's 35th CC Spin...and mine. Yes you read that correctly. I have participated in EVERY single Classics Club spin, along with Jean @Howling Frog. What is a CC Spin? Simply pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List. … Continue reading Classics Club Spin #35
Nick @One Catholic Life is once again hosting a chapter-a-day readalong. All year he has been reading George Eliot. I joined in the Adam Bede and Silas Marner readalongs earlier in the year. Now it is time to embark on our chapter-a-day readalong of Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. Nick's introductory post provides all … Continue reading Middlemarch Chapter-a-day readalong
I stand at the window of this great house in the south of France as night falls, the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life. I have a drink in my hand, there is a bottle at my elbow. I hope I haven't left this too late! I've been … Continue reading Giovanni’s Room | James Baldwin
Originally published earlier this week on the Australian Women Writer's Challenge. This was a book response that took a ridiculous amount of time to put together. Part timing (I finished the book the morning of my 10 day holiday, so I failed to write down any worthwhile notes or quotes before I left) and partly … Continue reading The Battlers | Kylie Tennant
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book.' thought Alice. 'without pictures … Continue reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll
It’s time for another Classics Club spin. This is the Classics Club's 34th CC Spin...and mine. Yes you read that correctly. I have participated in EVERY single Classics Club spin, along with Jean @Howling Frog. What is a CC Spin? Simply pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List. … Continue reading Classics Club Spin #34
Last year The Classics Club posted a questionaire to celebrate 10 years of blogging. I completed the post then promptly forgot about it! Lucky for me. I've had a nasty sinusitis infection since Friday night. The first couple of days were okay - I could still read and blog - but the past few days … Continue reading The Classics Club 10 Year Celebration Questionaire (a little late).
It’s time for another Classics Club spin. This is the Classics Club's 33rd CC Spin...and mine. Yes you read that correctly. I have participated in EVERY single Classics Club spin, along with Jean @Howling Frog. What is a CC Spin? Simply pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List. … Continue reading Classics Club Spin #33
With a drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader. Adam Bede was my lucky choice for the last Classics Club Spin. I was thrilled to then discover that Nick @One Catholic … Continue reading Adam Bede | George Eliot #EliotReadalong
One grey morning the first snow began to fall in Moomin Valley. It fell softly and quietly, and in a few hours everything was white. It took me a ridiculous amount of time to read this pocket-sized, yet delightful children's book. Finn Family Moomintroll is the first Moomin book translated into English, and at only … Continue reading Finn Family Moomintroll | Tove Jansson #NordicFINDS23
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