Notes on Books & Life
The Classics Reclamation Project is my personal challenge to read and enjoy the classics. The Trembling of a Leaf by W. Somerset Maugham is a collection of short stories set in the South Pacific. It was my book group’s selection for October. This is the first collection of short stories I’ve read that counted toward …
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The Classics Reclamation Project is my personal challenge to read and enjoy the classics. Well! It’s been a while since I’ve posted about a classic. That’s partly due to a busy summer schedule and partly to the fact that I’ve been reading War and Peace like crazy to catch up to Jillian’s year-long readalong. At …
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 …
Well, after a week (and a half, but who’s counting?) away from blogging, I’ve come to the conclusion that time off can be a good thing. I had a wonderful visit with family, even though very little reading and no blogging occurred. I started to see just how much time reading and blogging can take …
The Classics Reclamation Project is my personal challenge to read and enjoy the classics. Each Wednesday, I post about the classic I’m reading at the moment. This week I finished up The Hill of Devi by E.M. Forster, which is Forster’s account of his two trips to India during the early years of the twentieth …
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