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Review: A Glass of Blessings, by Barbara Pym7 comments

Laura wrote 2 days ago: Wilmet Forsyth is a bored housewife in 1950s England.  She and her husband Rodney have no children, … more →

Tags: Reviews, Marriage, Religion, virago modern classic, Woman author

To Russia with Classics Club Spin10 comments

BookerTalk wrote 3 days ago: The second Classics Club spin machine landed on number 6 which means I’ll be reading that clas … more →

Tags: Classics Club challenge, Sunday Salon, Books, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

And the Classic Spin Number Is . . .

JeffM wrote 4 days ago: The Classics Club picked their spin number and it is . . . 6. On my list that means ‘The Sun A … more →

Tags: Books

The Classic Spin speaks5 comments

heavenali wrote 4 days ago: The classic spin has spoken – and the number is 6. That means I will be reading one of the five Pers … more →

Tags: Classic Spin

and the spin sumber is....4 comments

Elyssa wrote 5 days ago: #6 Which means I’ll be reading The Great Gatsby Which, in light of the new movie, is appropria … more →

Tags: Classics Club, Classics Spin, f. scott fitzgerald, Fitzgerald, Gatsby, Second Time, The Great Gatsby

Classic's Spin 28 comments

severalfourmany wrote 5 days ago: Time for Classic’s Spin 2! Last March when The Classic’s Club held their first Classic’s Spin I trie … more →

Tags: Literature, Theater, Novel, autobiography, Thomas Hardy, Richard III, Anne Frank, Confucius' Analects, The Beautiful And The Damned

i joined classics club. the plan is to1 comment

rohithkishan wrote 6 days ago: i joined classics club. the plan is to read at least 50 classics in a maximum of 5 years. so here is … more →

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The Classics Club Spin #2!40 comments

Roof Beam Reader wrote 1 week ago:   The Classics Club Spin! Well, I attempted to play the first Classics Club Spin and completely fail … more →

Tags: 2013 B2tC Challenge, 2013 Challenges, Classics, Events

let's give it another whirl!8 comments

Elyssa wrote 1 week ago: Classics Clubbers are going for another spin and I’m super excited cause the first Classics Sp … more →

Tags: Classics Club, Classics Spin, event, link party

The Classics Spin #25 comments

wcs53 wrote 1 week ago: I joined The Classics Club a couple of months ago with the intention of trying to read some of the c … more →

Tags: Books, Reading

Book Review - The Secret Garden (Classics Club #2)3 comments

wcs53 wrote 1 week ago: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett My rating: 4 of 5 stars I have never read this book bef … more →

Tags: Book Review, Books, Reading

Book Review - Walden (Classics Club #1)

wcs53 wrote 1 week ago: Walden by Henry David Thoreau My rating: 2 of 5 stars After hearing and reading so many good things … more →

Tags: Book Review, Books, Reading

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert4 comments

1girl2manybooks wrote 2 weeks ago: Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert (translated by Adam Thorpe) Vintage 2012 (originally 1856), 333p Read … more →

Tags: Book Reviews 2013, Classic, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

The Classics Club Meme for May5 comments

ebookclassics wrote 2 weeks ago: Tell us about the classic book(s) you’re reading this month. You can post about what you’re looking … more →

Tags: Headlines, Moby Dick, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Tristan and Iseult

Classic club May question10 comments

heavenali wrote 3 weeks ago: Tell us about the classic book(s) you’re reading this month. You can post about what you’re looking … more →

Tags: birthday reading challenge

The Beats of Summer: A Reading Event! (Sign-Up Post)51 comments

Roof Beam Reader wrote 3 weeks ago: Welcome to the sign-up post for: The Beats of Summer: A Reading Event! Summertime is coming, and wha … more →

Tags: 2013 Challenges, Allen Ginsberg, American Lit, Banned Books, censorship, Classics, drugs, Events, Fiction

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

CJ wrote 3 weeks ago: Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Thus, gentle Reader, I hav … more →

Tags: Book Review, Cavalcade of Classics, Book, Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift

Review of Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut3 comments

curlygeek04 wrote 4 weeks ago: I read Slaughterhouse Five last year and loved it.  I think Vonnegut’s a genius, and I was super exc … more →

Tags: Challenges, Classic Literature, Science Fiction Reviews, hiroshima, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, World War II

Classics Club: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott5 comments

Emily wrote 1 month ago: I am 25 years old, and this is the first time I have ever read Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. I … more →

Tags: Reading, American Girl, book, children's classic, Family, Fiction, Literature, little women, Louisa May Alcott


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