Book 157: Villette – Charlotte Brontë
I’m starting to get an inkling as to why Charlotte Brontë was so bent on keeping Emily and Anne’s writings out […]
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Book 153: 1984 – George Orwell
I started to read this a few months ago, but I just couldn’t get into it in the first few
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Book 138: Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago counts for three challenges, and actually wraps up one of my 2012 Challenges! It counts for the Back
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Book 119: Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
So sometimes it sucks to be well read, or at least appear so. A friend visited last weekend and she
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Book 116: Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
[For an updated response check out my July 2015 reading of Mansfield Park.] I finished reading Mansfield Park this weekend
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Book 110: The Color Purple – Alice Walker
I must preface this post with the caveat that prior to reading the novel I knew little about it. I
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Book 105: Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Well I survived the slog. At points I honestly didn’t think I would get through the novel and really should
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Book 102: Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
It has been a long time since I read a (non-young adult fiction) book in a day, but this novel
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Back to the Classics Challenge 2012
As mentioned on Monday – I’ve found two reading challenges for 2012. The first is the Mount TBR Reading Challenge which you can read about here.
The second challenge I found, also thanks to Heather at Between the Covers is the:
Back to the Classics Challenge 2012 is hosted by Sarah of Sarah Reads Too Much. The challenge is fairly simple: nine books, nine categories. The categories (and the books I plan to read are below. The books may change, but the categories won’t.
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