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February 13, 2021 Marian Blog

February Reading

This weekend is Lunar New Year, snow (6 inches), and Valentine’s Day! While I don’t enjoy being thoroughly stuck at home, my plan is to read, bake, and watch some movies.

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Do you enjoy journaling? ✍️ I absolutely love journaling on a Saturday morning, with a cup of coffee or tea. ☕ Sometimes, however, you don't have this luxury or time - in which case, a scrap of paper will do as well, to be tucked into a book later on.
Happy Valentine's Day! 💕 Here are two classics featuring sisterly & brotherly love: Laura & Marian from The Woman in White, and Scout & Jem from To Kill a Mockingbird. So much of literature focuses on dysfunctional families that sometimes the good stories get overlooked.🌷Do you have any favorite novels about families who love each other?
Happy Lunar New Year! 🧧 🐂 It is snowing where I live - anyone else can't wait for spring? 🌸 If you're looking to dip your toes into Chinese literature, a great place to start is poetry. You can find two free volumes on Project Gutenberg, translated by Arthur Waley. I recorded a few of them for YouTube, coming soon!
This book. 😫 Think Lord of the Flies except with grown-ups and an epidemic. Not exactly a barrel of laughs....
Ok... I'm wayyy behind the readalong, but heartily enjoying Don Quixote! I just finished Chapter 7. So far we've encountered our hapless knight-errant, a tiff with a farmer, and a book burning. After his niece's failed intervention, Don Quixote is setting off again, this time with a sidekick, Sancho Panza. This is a very weird book but I love the humor and light-heartedness of it. 🐎
This year marks the "public domaining" of The Great Gatsby. Gatsby is certainly an iconic novel, full of vivid characters, thrilling quotes, and heartache. For all that, it's not a personal favorite, but I do have two copies because I couldn't resist the Wordsworth when I found it second hand. 🎆 If you've read this far ... I'd love to recommend The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham. It's a beautiful novel, superior to Gatsby IMHO, and is also entering the public domain! 🌸

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