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  • “It’s no use going back to yesterday…”

    Just dropping by for a quick update!  It’s getting to be a difficult time of year, in an equally challenging year.  I hope to graduate in August, which means from now until then school remains fairly time-consuming. “Real life” issues have also been causing me a bit of stress. However, because of all this stuff Continue reading

  • Hiatus?

    Never mind a post title – that ought to be the blog title! I came into this year so sanguine about my reading list, and here it is a few hours away from March, with little to show for such ambitions.  School and work are keeping me on my toes, literally all week long.  As Continue reading

  • Eugene Onegin Read-Along?

    With the New Year coming up and everybody looking at their reading lists for 2014, I have thought of hosting a read-along/book club for Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin.  Would anyone be interested? There are ten chapters, all poetry, so a month would be just about right for reading and discussion.  Maybe January, February, or Continue reading

  • 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

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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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