Tag: New Year
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🎆 Reading Goals… 2022 Reviewed & 2023 Previewed
Happy New Year, all! Especially to those of you on the other side of the pond where it is rapidly approaching midnight. 🙂 New Year’s Eve is pretty low-key around here. My family and I usually have a nice dinner and watch fireworks on TV (or drone shows… impressive but prosaic). Sometimes I like to […]
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New Releases to the Public Domain
Another year, another round of books leaving copyright! Check out the list here. Most notable (to me) is Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence. I wrote an eight-part review series on it a while ago. I’d like to think Ned would be pleased it’s now more widely accessible; hopefully more people will learn […]
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Reading Highlights of 2019
To be honest…this was a somewhat disappointing year for classic literature, which is probably my fault. I set my Goodreads challenge lower than last year (only 30 books as opposed to last year’s 40). I also read far more nonfiction than fiction, making the odds of reading a superb novel quite low (and I read […]
Classics Considered 