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It has come round again! What is it, you may ask? The Classics Club is a voluntary commitment to read 50 classics of your choice in 5 years from the time you join. Every so often, the Classics Club site hosts a "spin" to motivate participants to keep at their list, and maybe relieve some… Continue reading Classics Club Spin #41
Until a few years ago, I'd heard the name Dorothy Sayers but never quite knew what she wrote. Then I happened upon a Lord Peter Wimsey story in a mystery anthology and the character and story has stuck with me ever since. Keeping my eye out for the rest of the series, the 3 for… Continue reading Round-Up Review: Three Recent Classics Club Reads
By all accounts, Dostoevsky wrote The Gambler on a deadline, ironically, to pay gambling debts. No better way to prove invention's parentage is necessity. I recently missed another Classics Club spin, only to realise I still haven't performed the function of reviewing my last Classics Club read for Spin #39. Hence the necessity of my… Continue reading Rye, Rabble, and Roulette: The Gambler Review
Frances Hodgson Burnett was born Frances Eliza Hodgson in Manchester, England on this day, November 24, in 1849. If you thought Francis Hodgson Burnett exclusively wrote heartwarming children's stories, that was me not long ago. The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy... even if you haven't read the books, you've likely seen one… Continue reading The Ninth Daughter: A Lady of Quality Review
It has come round again! What is it, you may ask? The Classics Club is a voluntary commitment to read 50 classics of your choice in 5 years from the time you join. Every so often, the Classics Club site hosts a "spin" to motivate participants to keep at their list, and maybe relieve some… Continue reading Classics Club Spin #39
I don't think there is anyone quite like H.G. Wells, who can so convincingly write about fantastical impossibilities in a manner that is not only credulous but also firmly rooted in a comprehensive grasp of known science, society, and human nature. Maybe Jules Verne comes close but seems at times out of touch with human… Continue reading Strange and Hideous Dreams: The War of the Worlds Review
[W]hile I have Udolpho to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable. Oh! The dreadful black veil! -Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe Since hearing about Radcliffe's influence on the gothic literary movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, I have been interested in reading… Continue reading Two Towers, Pt. 1: The Mysteries of Udolpho
As though I don't have enough books to read between my summer for-fun reads and my genre-exploring reads to find comparable books for my work in progress, I'm going to take a stab at participating in this spin. At the very least, it will keep me motivated to knock another one off the list. Logic… Continue reading Classics Club Spin #38
Fictitiously Yours 