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Book Porn
My favourite annual used book sale was yesterday, and I think I did quite well. I usually feel guilty acquiring new books these days, considering I have dozens kicking around here that I haven’t yet read, but this is for charity you guys. Jeez, have a little heart. Paris in the Twentieth Century by Jules Verne Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee Atonement by Ian McEwan Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Their Eyes Were Watching God is on…
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Back To The Classics Challenge 2012
Sarah Reads Too Much is hosting a reading challenge next year, and I thought I’d join in and get some of those classics off my to-read pile. The challenge is to read one book that covers each of the nine categories she’s specified. Here are my tentative choices, suggestions always welcome: Any 19th Century Classic – The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Any 20th Century Classic – Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. I read half of this in high school and didn’t finish. While I was never a model student, I did at least enjoy the readings. This is the one book I didn’t finish, and it’s haunted…