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For the Back to the Classics 2022 challenge , I decided to read Madam, Will You Talk for the Mystery/Detective/Crime category. Published in...

I really had high hopes for The Marble Faun , the last completed novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Set in Rome and Tuscany, published in 1860, i...

Huzzah! Karen at Books and Chocolate is hosting Back to the Classics challenge for the 9th year, and I couldn't be more pleased. While...

I actually finished my final book in November, but I've been so busy lately I have just now found the time to do my wrap up post.  1. A ...

  A couple of years ago I fell in love with the Durrell family via the TV series The Durrells of Corfu and in particular Gerry, the precoci...

To Sir, With Love , by E.R. Braithwaite is the classic I choose for the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Person of Color) author category for the 2...

For the Back to the Classics 2021 challenge , for the Play category I decided to pick something from the 20th century and settled on Inherit...

I really enjoyed most of The Eustace Diamonds , the 3rd book in Anthony Trollope's Palliser series, and was happy in the assumption that...

First and foremost, Somerset Maugham is an exquisite writer. His prose has an elegant simplicity that is so moving and powerful.  Written in...

Martin Chuzzlewit is basically a story in search of a hero, with a gallery of rogues and some exceedingly dreary scenes. Dickens wrote A Ch...

For the 2021 Back to the Classics reading challenge , children's literature category, I decided to scan the list of Newberry Medal winne...

  Earlier this year, I read the fabulous Where the Crawdads Sing in which the main character Kya reads and rereads Aldo Leopold's class...

I haven't yet finished up my reading for the 2020 version of Back to the Classics, but I'm already chomping on the bit to get going ...

John Steinbeck has been a favorite of mine for a long time. I've read Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday multiple times, along with Of Mic...

I'm trying to keep some semblance of normalcy in my life, and blogging about books is one of those things that has been part of my l...

Karen at Books and Chocolate is hosting Back to the Classics 2020 - thanks, Karen, for hosting again. You have many loyal fans and I...

I read this John Steinbeck memoir of a cross-country trip slowly and savored not only the language but Steinbeck's perspective of A...

What a perfect first book for RIPXIV ! Picnic at Hanging Rock has been on my TBR list for decades, and I decided to make it my "Clas...

This year's Back to the Classics challenge has a category for books set in a place you've lived. Since I am the definition of...