Books and Chocolate

So, I've made it through fifty chapters of Moby-Dick -- about 250 pages, which is about 40 percent. Though I'm behind the ori...

Well, it's almost halfway through 2014, so I thought I'd check in and see how everyone's doing with the Back to the Classics ...

Sometimes when I read books off my TBR Pile Challenge list, it's kind of a slog, and I wonder why I bothered keeping this book arou...

Once again, I have signed up to participate in the annual Paris in July blogging event.  If you haven't heard about it, it's host...

Not the actual cover of the edition I read. That one is just too disturbing. Warning:  Do not read The Jungle , if you are like me and ...

I hadn't read anything by John Steinbeck in ages -- looking back, it's been nearly two years since I finished  East of Eden . ...

The commenters have spoken!!  I have taken the plunge and signed up for Adam's Whale of a Read-Along event at Roof Beam Reader....

Readers, I have a conundrum.  A couple of weeks ago, I signed up once again for the Classics Spin VI , one of my favorite blogging chal...

Oliver Dimsdale as Louis Trevalyan. I've finished watching the excellent 2004 adaptation of Anthony Trollope's classic novel, He...

After a recent viewing of The Grand Budapest Hotel  (which I LOVED -- who knew Ralph Fiennes was hilarious?) I was searching the internet...