When it occurred to me over the weekend that it would be nice to re-focus on my Classics Club list this year, I was convinced that today would see me writing a post entitled “The Classics Club: Two Years In”.…
Audiobooks Mini Reviews: Classics
It’s been quiet on the review front around here this year. I’ve been meaning to catch up with the books that I’ve listened to and read but obviously that isn’t quite going to happen. Enter, spate of reviewlettes. There are…
The Classics Club: One Year (and a bit) In
After a few years of pondering, in January 2014 I finally signed up to The Classics Club. I wasn’t at all sure that I’d really be up to (or inclined to) up my classics intake to the ten a year…
Thoughts on ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ by Jules Verne
The Penguin edition I’mpining for Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Classics Confession: Before reading this, my entire knowledge of the story of Around the World in 80 Days was based upon the Around the World with Willy Fog cartoon…
Thoughts on ‘Robinson Crusoe’ by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe was my Classics Club spin choice way back in February and I was due to read it by 2nd April, which just goes to show how far behind I am in the reviewing stakes! I actually listened to…
Thoughts on ‘Villette’ by Charlotte Bronte
“Villette! Villette! It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power” George Eliot It’s been years since I read and cried over Jane Eyre so, when I signed up for The Classics…
The Classics Spin Take One: The results are in!
I was actually pretty nervous when I remembered that today was the day that the results of my first Classics Club spin were in! I’ve spent the past week or so lamenting my own stupidity at including The Hunchback of…
The Classics Spin: Take One
I had planned on posting a review of Wake by Anna Hope today but I always find it hard to review books that I really like so that’s going to hang on until tomorrow (or Wednesday, if I am feeling…
The Classics Club: It’s Time
For the past few years, I’ve been saying that I need to read more classics. Not because have any sense of obligation or am plagued by feelings that I should be reading anything in particular or that there are books that are more…