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June Lately
It’s just past 10 am on a Tuesday and I am almost at the bottom of my first cup of coffee. I had my last day at my job on Friday, but life hasn’t slowed down. Though my husband and I got married at the courthouse already, we are also having a church wedding very Continue reading
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Checkout 19 (and a bit of Pond)
It’s been nearly a year now since I read Claire-Louise Bennett’s first novel, Pond (2015). I know it will become one of those core reading memories, because I remember reading it in my boyfriend’s apartment on a warm July afternoon. There were traces of Bennett in the reading experience itself. I was infinitely happy that Continue reading
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Of England, Storms, and Serpents
It is almost May. Between work and life and everything in between, there’s hardly room to breathe, but I am making more time for reading and crawling steadily out of the rut. ❤ The Lucy Poems This month, I was asked to supply some poems for a book club, and I put forward the “Lucy” Continue reading
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What I’m Reading: April Fool’s Edition
The past couple of weeks, I’ve been really tired from work and various life happenings. However, I’ve managed to fit in quite a bit of reading, which is a nice change, one I can hopefully keep up with. The Samurai was really getting slow after chapter 3, so I set it aside again (sigh) and Continue reading
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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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