Books and Chocolate

It's back! After much deliberation, I've decided to continue to the Back to the Classics Challenge for the seventh year...

Have you finished the Back to the Classics Challenge?  Congratulations!  This is  where you'll link up to your  Challenge Wrap-Up Pos...

Not actually my new home -- it's the reading room of the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C.  Sadly, our time in Germany is qu...

I love participating in the Classics Club Spins -- it's always fun to have someone else pick a book for you. I really want to read e...

I've been a big fan of Daphne du Maurier since I was thirteen and my mother let me stay up late with her to watch an ad...

Back-to-back train wrecks! I can't remember who blogged about it, but just a couple of weeks ago I saw that Penguin was re-issuing ...

Having spent nearly three years in Germany, I thought it was time I really buckled down and tried to read some actual German literary c...

I'm always happy to join in one of Kaggsy and Simon's biannual reading clubs, and when I found out they had selected 1965 for ...

"A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure. It will be a good thing for the Rougon family to be fou...

It's time for another Classics Spin ! If you're not familiar, it's a periodic mini-challenge created by The Classics Club ....