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Tag Archives: Classics Club
Animal Farm
Recently I realized that it had been as many as twenty years since I read Animal Farm, as I can remember reading it in early high school (1999, 2000 perhaps). A lot of water has flown under the bridge since … Continue reading
Visiting with Huey on the Mississippi
Good morning from the Mississippi river. For the last few days I’ve been in Natchez, enjoying the sights of a rare southern town that has not lost its soul to Progress: its city streets are marked by people and shops, not … Continue reading
My Name is Asher Lev
How to describe My Name is Asher Lev? The book opens with Asher himself describing himself as an apostate, a traitor, a mocker — and yet the reader will find no cruel intentions here, only a young man struggling with … Continue reading
My Ántonia
My Ántonia© 1918 Willa Cather175 pages An orphaned young boy and a young girl from another country arrive together in the Nebraska prairie, forging a friendship from their shared status as strangers in a new land despite their difficulties … Continue reading
Posted in Classics and Literary, Reviews
Tagged American West, Classics Club, Classics Club Strikes Back, Willa Cather
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A Gathering of Old Men
A Gathering of Old Men© 1983 Ernest Gaines213 pages There’s a white man dead in the quarter, and by sundown there may be another body swinging from the trees. Most of the people in the quarter don’t know why Beau … Continue reading
Posted in Classics and Literary, Reviews
Tagged Classics Club, Ernest Gaines, race, Southern Literature
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The Classics Club Strikes Back
From 2015 to 2019, I participated in the Classics Club, leaving one book to read in 2020 from my list of 50 — and having finished, it’s time to start again. I decided to focus on stories closer to home, … Continue reading
Classics Club….FINALE!
Yesterday, I finished The Brothers Karamazov, and, with that last page, completed the Classics Club challenge. I began the challenge in September 2015, and pecked away until late 2018, when I realized I had two years left and over half … Continue reading
Classic Meme 2.0
The Classics Club is bringing back their monthly question, beginning with: Which classic author have you read more than one, but not all, of their books and which of their other books would you want to read in the future? … Continue reading
Mark Twain and the Swiss Family Robinson
May’s theme for the classics was “Adventure”, as I paired Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain with The Swiss Family Robinson. Twain’s former is a collection more than a monograph, as he presents together his recollections of growing up … Continue reading
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Tagged Classics and Literary, Classics Club, Mark Twain, rivers, travel
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Invisible Man and Everybody Lies
This week I’ve finished two books of interest, the first being a classics club entry (Invisible Man), and the other a book on big data and statistics. Everybody Lies played true to its title, opening with ways that analysis of … Continue reading
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