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No pressure, of course! But if you’re feeling social, here’s a space to tell us about your latest classic. As always, you are of course welcome to leave a link to your blog if you prefer to share there.
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Currently listening to The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (wonderful) and reading The House of Leaves – which isn’t a Classic but it will be one day -:-)
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I just placed Siddhartha by Hesse on hold at the library and hope to get it soon. I’ve wanted (needed) to read this book for years and I am finally getting to it.
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Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain – I had to take it back to the library before I got to the end but after getting past the war years, she began to annoy me…I was reading All Quiet on the Western Front at the same time & although it was good to see the war from both sides, literally, All Quiet was just so much more powerful & selfless in contrast to Brittain who was constantly relating everything to her own little circle. Maybe too harsh here, but it’s not often I don’t finish a book especially when I’ve got pretty close to the end of it – I don’t feel any compulsion to borrow it again to finish it off.
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I’m still reading Little Dorrit, my Spin book. I’ve needed to take a break, hope to get back to it soon!
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I’m about halfway through Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works (translated by Edith Grossman) for the Sor Juana read-along hosted by Juliana of the [blank garden] and me. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was the first published feminist writer in the New World. I really enjoy her witty, spirited poetry so far.
Next I plan to read A Haunted House and Other Stories by Virginia Woolf for heavenali’s #Woolfalong. Can’t wait to dig into this collection!
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I just finished reading And Now Tomorrow by Rachel Field and started A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich. I absolutely loved the former (my review here), but I’m having trouble getting into the latter so far.
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I am currently reading The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley – I am very close to finishing it though. I am tempted to read The Story of the Amulet by Edith Nesbit next, which will finish the Psammead trilogy for me.
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Started Of Mice and Men just now. It’s my first Steinbeck and I’m very excited.
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I studied Of Mice and Men at school – I hope you enjoy it.
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I’m slowly working my way thru Don Delillo’s ‘Underworld’ . Really powerful stuff so far – but so long!
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The Serpent of Venice by Christopher Moore which is wonderful dark riff on both Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe!
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Book II of the Faerie Queene. Last canto!
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The Faeria Queene is on my list, I’ve never read any of it but it is tempting me 🙂
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Having just finished a contemporary novel, I’m looking forward to starting “A Canticle for Leibowitz.” It’s on my CC reading list. It was popular when I was in college back in the ’60s, but I never got to it then.
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working my way through some sci-fi classics. Two books left to go in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series! At some point I will also have to finish Henry IV Part II, which I’ve been working on for MONTHS now…
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Struggling through the Historical books of the Old Testament (currently in Second Book of Kings) with some occasional light relief courtesy of Aristophanes
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I feel you, they can drag and sometimes so repetitive. I think I got through the old testament and I want to finish (some time).
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Well done! I once read all the way through the Old Testament but now I tend to dip in and out now, as it is heavy going and there are a lot of names and dates.
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I am reading Jane Steele, a stylish, dark-edged riff on Jane Eyre!
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Lory, I hope you’re enjoying it! I have a copy of Jane Steele and I am really looking forward to reading it 🙂
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