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Top Ten Tuesday: Characters I didn’t "click" with
Hosted by The Broke and the Bookish Saw this over at Hamlette’s blog, and thought it would be a fun trip down memory lane. Here goes – and hope I don’t tread on any toes. 😉 Werther from The Sorrows of Young Werther. Everyone from A Passage to India. (Sorry, Forster.) Irene Adler from “A… Read more >>
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Guest review ~ Five Weeks in a Balloon
Five Weeks in a Balloonis a Victorian book that takes place in 1862 and was written by Jules Verne. It is about three individuals, Dr. Samuel Ferguson, his servant Joseph Wilson, and a hunter, Richard Kennedy, who set off in a balloon off the coast of Zanzibar to cross the African continent. I liked this… Read more >>
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Mini summer book haul
Yesterday my family and I had another chance to visit Powell’s City of Books, which, as I raved last year, is the coolest bookstore you’ll ever get lost in. I naively assumed it would be fairly quiet in the middle of a Monday…that was a very, very wrong assumption. The place was absurdly busy –… Read more >>
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom – The Foundations of Arab Revolt
map by T. E. Lawrence What draws you into Lawrence’s narrative from the start is its setting. As Westerners, we often view history in a binary perspective. There is the past – epitomized frequently in our culture by the World Wars, and the still living generations who remember them – and there is the present,… Read more >>
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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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