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My Blog’s Name in Books – TBR!
Saw this neat meme/tag on O’s blog, On Bookes: The rules:1. Spell out your blog’s name.2. Find a book from your TBR that begins with each letter. (Note you cannot ADD to your TBR to complete this challenge – the books must already be on your Goodread’s TBR)3. Have fun! noonlight Nostromo by Joseph… Continue reading
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Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon: TBR stack, April 2018
It’s that happy time of year again, the biannual Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon! I am somewhat of a casual participant, in that I don’t get up at 5am and I do let myself take long breaks. Even so, it’s still great fun! As ever, I’ll be posting updates to Instagram and Goodreads. The lineup: Finish… Continue reading
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A King, a Boy, and a Sailor’s Wife – Three Films of WWII
The past couple of weeks, I’ve enjoyed three very interesting, yet vastly different, films which take place during or leading up to World War II. I haven’t shared a movie review in a while, so I thought I’d just mention these before I forgot about them. First up is The King’s Choice, a Norwegian film… Continue reading
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Xi Jinping and the Addictive Quality of Biographies
Apologies for my two weeks’ radio silence… Work has been intense, so I haven’t mustered up the energy to blog until this weekend. Happily, I’ve been reading, and there is plenty to catch up on! My current obsession reading focus is an unlikely one: CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping (2016) by Kerry Brown. … 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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