Rebecca Reads

She’ll be visiting A Striped Armchair today. Although I was scheduled for Heyer’s Classics Circuit stop today originally, we’ve since tweaked the schedule, so if you are looking for the updated schedule, make sure to visit the Classics Circuit site.
I have some personal things going right now so I’ll be absent from reading and commenting [...]

Last week, I finished a few shorter books, as well as my project book, which I’d worked on all month, and The Fellowship of the Ring, which was the February Lord of the Rings book. I enjoyed Woolf’s book, and Douglass’s narrative was a great perspective on what it meant to be a slave. DNA [...]

I will miss February’s calendar picture. It is just the prettiest picture in the calendar and I find it sad that it happened to be on the shortest month! The days have been filled with well-enjoyed books, though. It was a satisfying month.
March’s picture is not as exciting to me, but I do like the [...]

Although I’m much more comfortable writing than talking, when it comes to my favorite subject (books), I decided I could give talking about books a try. Thanks to the encouragement of Amanda, Eva, and Jason, here’s my first vlog!

You’ll notice that I’m just as nerdy in person as I am in writing. I made an [...]

The figure of my study is round, and has no more bare wall than what is taken up by my table and chair; so that the remaining parts of the circle present me a view of all my books at once, set upon five rows of shelves round about me. … ’Tis there that I [...]

I only read one nonfiction book in January, so my library requests focused on the nonfiction for February. But I have still been craving fiction. I feel like I’ve been reading a lot this week, but I have barely anything to show for it. I’ve been working on Inventing English, which is quite fascinating, but [...]

I finished Sense and Sensibility this week, and I did end up enjoying it. But I read it so fast, that I finished it and wanted more. I watched the movie, and I still wanted more. It was disappointing to pick up the next book (Dorian Gray) and know it was not going to have [...]

I’m already planning to read a Harlem Renaissance Classic for the Classics Circuit (Black No More), but I decided rather belatedly to read some more African-American history for Black History Month.  I went to my own bookshelves and was surprised to find I don’t have very many African-American books I haven’t read. I realize, as [...]

At the beginning of the month, my friend gave me a calendar called “The Reading Woman.” Apparently she knows I like to read. Each month has a different painting of a woman reading. I’ve decided to use it to keep track of the books I’ve read each month: when I finish a book, I write [...]

I know May is still three months away, but I just want to gauge interest and see what you all think. I loved reading Paradise Lost a decade ago when I was in college and I’ve been thinking it’s about time to revisit it. The language of the poem was so beautiful, and I loved [...]