In reading One Day, my curiosity for Dickens was piqued much more than I thought was possible, since leaving behind British Lit in high school and college so many years ago. There were several quotes from Great Expectations that tied in with the theme of the novel, as we moved into adulthood with Dexter and…
Category Archives: Classics
Classics Bookclub — wrap up!
Last December we announced the New Classics Bookclub. Instead of selecting a book each month and reading it together, we invited you to keep reading classics, but at your own pace — 1 or 2 a quarter, 1 a month, or whatever you chose. You made a plan and linked up your initial reviews. At…
100 Classic Books on the Nintendo DSiXL
I really wanted to find the biggest picture that I could of the Nintendo DSiXL 100 Classic Books game to give you the best idea of what it would look like. Hopefully this particular picture gives you some idea of the reading experience you can expect to have, courtesy of a Nintendo DSi XL screen!…
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…
Sense & Sensibility: Insight Edition
As a Jane Austen fanatic, I’ve never thought her novels could be improved. The wonderful folks at Bethany House proved me wrong with the Insight Edition of Sense and Sensibility. Packed full of wonderful tidbits of pop culture trivia from the film versions, Austen’s life, and the historical & cultural details of the era, this…
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…
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…
On Reading: Reading Great Literature
For many years, I walked right past the Classics section of the bookstore. There was a good reason for this–I was so traumatized in high school from being assigned The Scarlet Letter and Moby Dick, that I promised myself I would never again open a book that was considered Great Literature. And I never break…
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