Books and Chocolate

Posthumously published in 2013, The Exiles Return is the first of Elisabeth de Waal's novels to be published by Persephone (the a...

Not a great cover image, but the only one I could find. I don't know who I can credit for recommending Crossriggs -- I'm su...

It's April, and that means it's another edition of Fanda's Zoladdiction! Hosted by Fandaclassiclit, this is a month-long c...

I always love when Simon and Kaggsy host one of their year-themed reading clubs -- it's so interesting to see the range of differ...

I haven't participated in a Classics Spin for a while, but what else do I have to do? I'll let the Classics Spin random numbe...

It took me two months, but I've finally finished Les Miserables, Victor Hugo's sprawling masterwork. Originally I had planned on p...

The Italian cover. Great photo, but wrong era, it's off by about 50 years. "There came a moment, she imagined, in the lives o...

The Battle of Waterloo by William Holmes Sullivan Two volumes done, three to go! I'm making real progress with  Les Miserables , one...

Another challenge! But all of these are books that are already on the TBR shelves, or count for another challenge. How can I resist?  H...

So I've decided to take the plunge and make another attempt at Victor Hugo's epic masterpiece, Les Miserables. At 1260 page...