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What I’m Reading (and More): March edition
Hi readers – hope everyone is doing well! I’ve been incredibly busy the last several weeks at work, which seems to be the new normal. To be honest, I haven’t been reading much, but I have watched some interesting films lately which I wanted to share. Reading The Acts of the ApostlesRereading Acts, one thing… Continue reading
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Top Ten of 2018 + Reading Goals Recap
There’s three weeks left in the year, but I honestly don’t expect to get much reading done till my Christmas break (beginning the 20th!!!), so I thought I would start my yearly retrospective a bit early. These were my reading goals for 2018: Bring back Book Journals – Kind of a fail. I started a… Continue reading
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My (Reading) Year in Review
It’s mid-December already – can you believe it?! According to Goodreads, I read 36 books this year. (A couple of those were “did not finish”s, but apparently those count, too.) It was twice as much as I committed to, and I don’t say that to brag; it was more of an accident than anything. You… Continue reading
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Kazuo Ishiguro – Nobel Laureate
Exciting news in the literature world… today it was announced Kazuo Ishiguro won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature! As you may know from following me here and on Goodreads, I have great respect for Ishiguro as a writer. I do not agree with his outlook on all issues, and my reactions to his novels… Continue reading
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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