Owned and Unread Project

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Sunday, March 25, 2018

Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather is Beautiful and Tragic

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After making up my list for the TBR Pile Challenge , I realized that quite a few of my selections were in the 500+ pages range. I was p...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Top Ten Books On My Spring TBR List

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After finishing the massive Wives and Daughters I'm somewhat between books at the moment. I did just start something a couple of da...
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Saturday, March 17, 2018

Wives & Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell is the Ultimate Victorian Novel

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I love this cover, it's a detail from a painting called Waiting by John Everett Millais. BEST. VICTORIAN. NOVEL. EVER. OK, ...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Effi Briest: The German Emma Bovary, But Less Interesting

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I had really high hopes for this book -- a classic book, in translation, and a German classic no less! I really want to read more Germa...
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Monday, March 12, 2018

Madame de Treymes and Three Novellas by Edith Wharton

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It's been quite a while since I read anything by Edith Wharton. She's the author of some of my favorite novels, and I've re...
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Classics Club Spin #17

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I've narrowed my new Classics Club list down to 20 books for the next Classics Club Spin . On Friday the Classics Club will ran...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Classics Club Redux: The List

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Last year I pretty much gave up on my Classics Club List -- from my original list of 75, I had six left to go which I'd been putting ...
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Monday, March 5, 2018

Peony by Pearl S. Buck: Not so Much About Flowers

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Already a contender for Prettiest Book Cover of the Year I'm still really trying to read as many books as possible this year from m...
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Thursday, March 1, 2018

A Parisian Mini-Break

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There are a lot of long weekends for my daughter's American school on the military base, and one of the best things is that they rarely...
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