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Of Note-Taking and Commonplace Books—A Ramble
I don’t follow a lot of booktubers, but I always get excited when RC Waldun drops a video. Our reading interests don’t overlap a ton (he’s heavily into philosophy and the Beats), but I enjoy his approach to literature. It’s been fun to watch, over the years, how he’s thrown himself wholeheartedly into his channel… Read more >>
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Ten Things Getting in the Way of Reading
I like today’s prompt very much… It forces me to confront the 3-4 stacks of books I am supposed to be “currently reading” and ask—why?! Read more >>
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
A video version of this review can be watched here. This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve. Wilkie Collins was born in London, the son of a landscape painter, and studied law briefly before going into writing full time. He met Charles Dickens in… Read more >>
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Galsan Tschinag’s The Blue Sky
Then I knew that I no longer had a Dusky, that there was no longer any Dusky, not in the flock and not on the earth. Only a pile of meat remained, and that would not be there much longer either. The Blue Sky is about a boy born into a simple life, only to… 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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