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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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The Old Man and the Sea ~ Read-Along
I was so excited to hear about this read-along at Hamlette’s blog! In fact, I got a bit of a head start and made sure to read it this past Saturday. But that gives me time now to read other people’s posts over the course of this week, and I’m looking forward to hearing other… 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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