The Classics Reclamation Project is my personal challenge to read and enjoy the classics. I came across One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (whose name I can almost spell now without looking it up) while perusing my library’s downloadable audiobooks. It was a classic, it was narrated by Frank Muller …
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Thoughts on “Annie on My Mind” by Nancy Garden (Audiobook)
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden found its way onto my TBR list after I read Nymeth’s review over on things mean a lot. About the Book: Annie and Liza are seniors in high school when their paths first happen to cross at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They are immediately drawn to one …
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Thoughts on “Angels in America” by Tony Kushner
Cass (Bonjour, Cass!), Emily (Eat the Books!) and I coordinated our reading of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Angels in America, and watching of the HBO miniseries adaptation. We’re all posting today, so be sure to check out their thoughts as well! Angels in America is actually two plays: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. Both are …
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Reading Buddies Wrap-Up: “Bel Canto” by Ann Patchett
Welcome to the Reading Buddies wrap-up for Bel Canto by Ann Patchett! I’m just going to come out and say that if you haven’t read the book and might, at some point, you probably want to stop reading now. It’s one of those books that’s easily ruined by spoilers, I think, and seeing as what …
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Reading Buddies Wrap-Up: “Animal Farm” by George Orwell
To those who haven’t read Animal Farm by George Orwell: beware! Spoilers are fair game in this post and its comments. Having finished Animal Farm (my first Orwell), I find myself of two minds. I do feel it’s a good book, worthy its “classic” status and of its wide reading base. Intellectually, I found it …
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