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• Talk: Dante’s Inferno

  
  Imperfect Clarity — Authority: 120
  Ok, I’m not finished with it – or nearly finished with it – but I absolutely think that I’m going to really love this book. I’m reading “The Portable Dante” published by Penguim Classics and so far, I am enjoying it.  At the beginning of each Canto (chapter, for a modern word, I suppose), the ...
  4 days ago

• The Old Man and the Sea

  
  Thinking About... — Authority: 119
  He was asleep in a short time and he dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long golden beaches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountains…. He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor ...
  1 week ago

• A belated Thanksgiving Midweek Review Library Loot Flashback Friday Review of Challenges post

  
  Just A (Reading) Fool — Authority: 106
  Yep, I’m lazy and combining posts today… …from Thanksgiving to my “regularly scheduled” (ahem, if you’ve been here a while, it’s very “irregularly scheduled”) posts of Midweek Review and Flashback Friday and Library Loot (which I toss in every once in a while). A hodge-podge if you will, sort of ...
  1 week ago

• The Really Old Classics Challenge: Dante’s “The Divine Comedy”

  
  Imperfect Clarity — Authority: 120
  This is one of the challenges that I am looking forward to: the Really Old Classics Challenge . I have never really read that many of the classic works of literature and I thought that this just might be the challenge to get me started. The rules are: To join the Really Old Challenge, commit to read at least one ...
  2 weeks ago

• Slaughterhouse-Five

  
  Thinking About... — Authority: 119
  In Slaughterhouse-Five , Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. tells the semi autobiographical story of Billy Pilgrim, a man who has come unstuck in time. Much of Billy’s time is spent during World War II.  As an new soldier, Billy is sent to the front, where he is captured at the Battle of the Bulge by the Germans, and sent to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book Review: Possession by A. S. Byatt

  
  Between the Covers — Authority: 112
  Chunkster Challenge #2 Classics Challenge #4 In a dusty book once owned by the great nineteenth-century poet Randolph Henry Ash, scholar Roland Michell finds two draft beginnings of a letter. These drafts are surprising, not only because they’ve escaped the attentions of rapacious Ash collector Mortimer ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Classics Challenge Wrap-up

  
  Laura's Reviews — Authority: 462
  I sadly did not discover The Classics Challenge until August. I chose to read a “Classics Snack” of four books as I joined the challenge so late. The books I chose were: 1. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 2. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 3. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 4. The Bridge of San Luis ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

  
  Laura's Reviews — Authority: 462
  The Bridge of San Luis Rey is an excellent novel that won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize, was listed as one of the top 100 books of the 20th century by the American Modern Library in 1998, and was included by Time Magazine in the “Time 100 Best English language novels from 1923 to 2005”. This book is not just a stuffy ...
  5 weeks ago

• Classics Challenge 2009 Wrap-Up

  
  Between the Covers — Authority: 112
  Since the challenge blog only specified reading the classics, not reviewing them, I have technically completed the challenge even though I have five half-finished reviews. (Blame NaNoWriMo. I do.) My selections were: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (A-) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (A) Possession ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

  
  Care's Online Book Club — Authority: 119
  Thoughts   The Giver by Lois Lowry, Dell Laurel-Leaf/Random House 1993, 179 pages, Newberry Medalist MOTIVATION for READING: This was the highest rated book on one of those goodreads.com “BEST BOOK” lists that I had not yet read and didn’t know enough about it not to read. (There are a few books rated ...
  6 weeks ago

• Gift from the Sea

  
  Thinking About... — Authority: 119
  “Herein lies one key to the problem. If women were convinced that a day off or an hour of solitude was a reasonable ambition, they would find a way of attaining it. As it is, they feel so unjustified in their demand that they rarely make the attempt. One has only to look at those women who actually have the ...
  6 weeks ago

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