Classics Considered

by Marian H

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  • The blog is not dead

    Retreating (contentedly) into Tanglewood Posts have been infrequent enough this year; I didn’t expect to be ‘absent’ two months!  Real life has found ways of distracting me from books, but I am anxious to leave my post-Amerika reading rut and morph into summer “heavy” reading. A review for Twice-Told Tales is forthcoming.  I am going… Continue reading

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  • Orthodoxy

    If it is difficult to review a book that is nonfiction and follows a less-than-linear outline, then it is doubly difficult to review such a book from the Christian apologetics genre.  And, naturally, one must explain a rating of 5 out of 5 stars. G. K. Chesterton‘s Orthodoxy is an account of how he came… Continue reading

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  • Kafka’s Copperfield in Amerika

    “My intention was . . . to write a Dickens novel, enriched by the sharper lights which I took from our modern times, and by the pallid ones I would have found in my own interior.”  – Diaries (1946), qtd. in “Amerika (novel),” Wikipedia. It is rarely my choice to read Franz Kafka all the… Continue reading

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  • Wieland

    When I chose Wieland: or, The Transformation for my history class, I was not expecting a masterpiece of plot, philosophy, or characters.  I did expect a good old-fashioned Gothic tale with a dash of melodrama, an eerie edifice, and maybe a ghost or two.  Sadly, this is the third book connected to my class that… 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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