The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
“A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace.” In The Mill on the Floss,...
View ArticleClassics Club Spin #32
I don’t know why I’m doing this but here goes ….. from all four lists. The Rules for the Classics Club Spin #32 are: Go to your blog. Pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics...
View ArticleMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express: “It was five o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria.” Also Published as: Murder in the Calais Coach Detective: Hercule Poirot Published: January 1934 Length: 265 pages...
View ArticleDeal Me In Challenge 2023
Deal Me in Challenge 2023 and again, I stubbornly continue to participate, even though I finish less and less of the selections each year. Last year, I think I finished one selection (shame!) but even...
View Article2022 Year In Review
YEAR IN REVIEW 2022 READING STATS Number of Books Read: 32 Number of Re-Reads: 9 Genre You Read The Most From: Classics / Mystery BEST IN BOOKS Best Book You Read in 2022: Hamlet Book You Were...
View ArticleUnfinished Portrait by Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie)
“Do you know the feeling you have when you know something quite well and yet for the life of you can’t recollect it?” Oh, wow! After my first Westmacott novel, Giant’s Bread, I was really dreading...
View ArticleClassics Club Spin #33
Oh, heavens! I haven’t accomplished much on the spins. I did manage to find my copy of Revelations of Divine Love, so that’s promising. Otherwise I : am reading Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations but...
View ArticleClassics Club Spin #34
Another spin and another attempt. Since incorporating not only my Classics Club list, but some of my other project lists, I’ve managed to read one book for each spin, so I’m going to continue! From...
View ArticleClassics Club Spin #35
I’m not going to finish my Classics Club list, within the 5-year time period but nevertheless I continue on and these spins help out so much. And by including four lists I’m at least making my way...
View ArticleClassics Club Spin #36
In spite of my silence on my blog, I’m still reading! I managed to read 54 books for 2023 so I’m really happy with that considering previous years hovered around 35 or less. That said, I don’t have...
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