I meant to -- I really did. When the Classics Bookclub went to once a quarter, I set a goal of one classic per quarter. Not too hard. I was reading Gulliver's Travels on my very fun new 100 Classics Books program on my Nintendo DSiXL. I read it some on my vacation in June/July. I read some more when I got home. Then I sort of got caught up in other things. I was going to finish it up while we were away visiting family for 4 days. In fact, I got in lots of reading, finishing up a book or two. I brought the 100 Classics Books cartridge, but guess what? I forgot my DS -- that's what. ARGH! The story was okay. Not great, but okay, but as I was reading, I ...
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Classics Book Club: The Princess and the Goblin
Attention classic book lovers everywhere! I have a news flash for you! Get this: It is now hip to be square. Yes, indeed, it’s true. Thanks to the 100 Classic Books “game” for Nintendo DSiXL, we who love all things classic can not only be hip but I have to tell you: I’ve also been the envy of at least two young gamers in my circle of acquaintance (who also happen to live with me). I'll freely confess that I’m pretty much old school, like most fans of classic literature, but I really enjoyed the convenience of having so many great novels at the tip of the fingers (or my stylus, as the case may be). Since I was branching out and reading a book in an electronic format, I decided to also choose something a little different ...
Readable Classics
Before I started my own blog in January of 2007, I followed several blogs daily (yes, I was a lurker). One of the blog topics that always captured my attention was books/reading. I love to read, so I enjoyed following along with reading challenges and blogs about books. As soon as I started my own site, I jumped into the reading community by participating in challenges; and eventually, I became a contributor at 5 Minutes for Books. I have always been a reader, but reading challenges and my work with 5 Minutes for Books have helped me to expand my horizons in a very specific way: I now read classics—for fun. I first joined the classics scene by reading all of Jane Austen's books (it seemed that everyone in Blogland adored Jane), and since then, I ...
Classics Bookclub: Link up your reviews!
Have you been reading the classics? Have you read any since we announced our "pick-your-own" sort of bookclub? I set some goals, loosely hoping to read one per quarter, or at least four over the year, and here we are at the end of the first quarter, and I'm cramming. I have not finished my book, but I am reading it. I'm fairly sure I'll be able to link up a review by sometime tomorrow. And though the traffic will probably slow down, there's no time limit. I would say if we get too far into April you should save that review to link up the next 5th Tuesday (June 29). This is our first quarterly posting of the linky that invites you to post up all your reviews from the last quarter (from January 1 on). The ...
The NEW Classics Bookclub — Sign up!
We've made a lot of changes to the Classics bookclub over this year to try to make it easier for people to participate. We've reduced the frequency, we've added in some non-classics, we've selected an author instead of a specific book to give people some leeway -- and it's still been slow going. We don't want to dump it. We know that there are some of you out there who love to read the Classics and love to be able to do so alongside other booklovers. And then there are those of you (like me!!), who want to re-read some of those classics that didn't mean as much as they could've because we read them when we were 16 years old. There are also books that we never got around to that we feel like we really "should" read someday. So ...
Books on Screen: The Inheritance
For the Louisa May Alcott Bookclub, I read The Inheritance. It was Miss Alcott's first novel (written when she was a mere 17), but went undiscovered until well after her death. This work caught my attention because it was set in my favorite era, 19th century England. My full review can be found here. After reading the book, I found out that there was a television movie loosely based on the novel. Loosely is quite an accurate description. The movie takes liberties with the setting (19th century America), the characters (one missing, and one in the movie who was deceased in the novel), and the events. I think the movie made for a sweeter, more plausible story, and kept my attention more than the novel itself. Tom Conti plays Mr. Hamilton (dead in the novel), and I found ...
Classics Bookclub: Louisa May Alcott
This month for our Classics Bookclub, we invited you to read any work by Louisa May Alcott. I've been very excited about this because I found a few short stories that I wanted to read by Alcott, and I like the flexibility of being able to choose any title I'd like from a given author. This is definitely my cup of tea so I'm anxious to share with you what I read. This past summer I was browsing at our local Goodwill and stumbled across a copy of the book Kate's Choice. Having never heard of it before, I snatched it up and intended to keep it for reading this holiday season. I was delighted to dive on in. Kate's Choice
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