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Battling Reader’s Block
Hope everyone is doing well this fine June… It feels like the month is FLYING by. Tomorrow is going to be about 90 degrees where I live, so I’d say summer is here. Since I finished 12 Rules for Life, I’ve been having pretty bad reader’s block. You wouldn’t necessarily be able to tell… Current… Read more >>
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The Time Machine: Then and Now
It’s been about fifteen years since I first read The Time Machine. It was so unlike anything I’d read before. Afterwards, I even wrote my own time-travelling story, which was more like fan-fiction than anything else. I don’t often reread books, but as I build my H. G. Wells collection, I figured I’d reread each… Read more >>
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12 Rules for Life – Follow-up
Well…I promise I’m not trying to milk this for all it’s worth. But I realized that after “finishing” the review of 12 Rules for Life, I’d failed to answer my starting questions from Part 1: What is about [Jordan Peterson] or his message that generates commonality between such disparate groups? What kind of person, with… Read more >>
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Aladdin 2019 – Reaction (No Spoilers!)
A couple of months ago I mentioned I was looking forward to two Disney remakes this year, Aladdin and The Lion King. Well, my siblings and I just got back from Aladdin, and I was not disappointed! It’s funny, beautiful, moving, and action-packed. Dare I say it?? I like it better than the cartoon original.… Read more >>
About Me
Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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Recent Posts
- Emo Classics – Bronte, Woolf, and Kierkegaard
- What I’m Reading – It’s Almost March Edition
- What I’m Reading – Morning Coffee Edition
- Oddly Specific Things I Love in Books (and a Few Movies)
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – A Long Overdue Review
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