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  • The blog is not dead

    Retreating (contentedly) into Tanglewood Posts have been infrequent enough this year; I didn’t expect to be ‘absent’ two months!  Real life has found ways of distracting me from books, but I am anxious to leave my post-Amerika reading rut and morph into summer “heavy” reading. A review for Twice-Told Tales is forthcoming.  I am going Continue reading

  • The House of the Seven Gables

    New England, early 1800s.  Hepzibah Pyncheon, a hermit-like woman with a severe face and a soft heart, lives quietly in the seven-gabled Pyncheon House.  She is rescued from poverty only when her young relative, Phoebe, comes to live with her and help her run a small shop.  Phoebe is interested to meet the other lodger Continue reading

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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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