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The Men Who Knew Too Much (and Not Enough)
You invariably have some expectations when watching a thriller. Though I haven’t seen a lot of this genre, it’s similar enough to mystery that I expect something. I expect to be scared, and I expect to care about someone in the film. To a degree, all three of these accomplished that. Some more than others.… Read more >>
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Hello, Fall!
Summer is taking the calendar seriously this year – an overstay of dry weather for the greater Seattle area. (The dictionary tells me “overstay” is not a noun. I protest.) Meanwhile, I am hoping for rain this week and looking for fall color anywhere it dares show its face. Book Haul Not long ago we… Read more >>
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Final Thoughts on Lord Jim
Note: Before getting into the review, I want to mention how disappointed I was by the Barnes & Noble Classics edition. There was an unnecessarily massive amount of footnotes, and one of the endnotes disclosed a major spoiler, long before I reached that plot twist! Normally I’d recommend B&N Classics, but this one I cannot. It’s… Read more >>
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Romanticism in Lord Jim
Despite a bit of a guilty feeling – not having finished The Brothers Karamazov yet – I was really in the mood to read Lord Jim. This is my second or third attempt. Previously I could hardly get past three pages; now I’m nearly a third of the way through and have definitely put BK… 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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