Rebecca Reads

Heather and I are hosting the Really Old Classics Challenge from November 2009 to the end of February 2010. I am so excited about it. I’ve enjoyed every really old classic I’ve read thus far, and I’m looking forward to a little motivation to read some more!
It’s a fairly simple challenge. To finish, you need [...]

The Really Old Classics Challenge, which I’ve been hosting, ends this week.
If you participated in this challenge, I’d love to know what you think now that it’s coming to an end.
But first, if you’d like, go to the reviews post and leave a link to your reviews so we can come read your thoughts.

A number of people got some Really Old Classics read by the end of February. I’m sending a lucky winner a book of your choice. But first, here’s who participated in the first half of the Really Old Classics Challenge. I’ve formed it like a mini-blog carnival so you might get an idea for your [...]

Hey all, thanks for your well-wishes! All is going well with our packing and moving. Thanks to audiobooks, I still get some literature in my life these days.
This is just a reminder that there are still 18 days left to get your really old classics reviews posted here in order to be entered in a [...]

It’s the new year! New challenges are beckoning us, as are new books. But let’s not forget the really old ones!
How about a mini-challenge (with a giveaway) to remind you?

If you would like to share your reviews for the Really Old Classics Challenge, please leave a link to your post in the comments to this post.
If you do not have a blog, feel free to share your thoughts to the works you’ve read in the comments as well.
Thanks, and enjoy!

Children 2,000 years ago read and memorized Virgil and Homer, and Aesop’s Fables were common knowledge. Even 200 years ago these classics were widely read. Now, there are thousands of new books published each year. But what about those really old ones? Have we read those yet? Any of them?
That’s why I’ve decided to host [...]

Here is a sample of some Really Old Classics that were written pre-Shakespeare (i.e., pre-1600s). This list is, of course, not exclusive. You can purchase books through my Amazon Store.

Gilgamesh
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Holy Bible
The Apocrypha
Bhagavad-Gita
Homer Iliad, Odyssey
Aeschylus Oresteia, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound,
Sophocles Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
Euripides Orestes
Aristophanes
Herodotus The Histories
Thucydides  The [...]