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Lawrence of Arabia
I grew up watching two of those long, epic-historical pictures…Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments. My attention span was pretty good back then. I wonder what the younger me would have thought of Lawrence of Arabia. For sure, I would have sat down and watched it straight through, unlike the me of today, who watched it… Read more >>
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The Enchanted Island – an opera learning experience
Watching The Enchanted Island posed three firsts for me: 1) Baroque2) English3) Getting my brother to watch opera (!!) The last one was a surprising success…the first two, not so much. I was intrigued by the concept when it came out in 2011, and it stayed in the back of my mind, till I finally… Read more >>
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Go Set a Watchman
“US cover of Go Set a Watchman” by Source (WP:NFCC#4).Licensed under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_cover_of_Go_Set_a_Watchman.jpg" title="Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of Go Set a Watchman“>Fair use via Wikipedia. I finished Go Set a Watchman the other night. Essentially I sat up in bed and started crying. At times (some might say all the time),… Read more >>
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"Poor Pym!" – Verne Meets Poe in Antarctica
My current interest in Antarctica led me to finally read The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, by Edgar Allan Poe, and its sequel An Antarctic Mystery, by Jules Verne. (I am the biggest Vernian fangirl ever, so this duology sounded written for me.) While in fairness I can only give Pym 3 stars… 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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