Classics, Nonfiction, and Children's Literature
Jillian from A Room of One’s Own has started a group to encourage bloggers to read a set number of classics (you choose — at least 50) to read in the next five years (or you choose a different length of time). Because of the hiatus of the Classics Circuit and given my interest in
I’m in for the Sixth Annual 48 Hour Book Challenge, sponsored by Mother Reader! I’m always awful at these readathons because the day of the readathon is always rather booked up for me. This one might just work because it is for 48 hours! Starting today, Friday June 3, at 7 a.m. and going until
There was a little boy who was obsessed with the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. He tests his oatmeal and declares it “just right.” He finishes his oatmeal and brags on how he ate it “all up”! He knocks over chairs and says “broken to smithereens!” and he growls as a bear at
When I was a little girl, I’d fall asleep staring at the wallpaper. The tiny pink and blue flowers and the dots would blur together and when I crossed my eyes, it would jump out like a Magic Eye page. During the day, I never noticed the wallpaper. But as I lay in bed
Someone out there is rolling their eyes at my obvious obsession with alliteration and seasonal reading. This year I started a Milton in May event, and then My Victorian Summer. I just couldn’t think of a better name for my two-month (or so) immersion in Africa, so An African Autumn it is. For this project,
With my new emphasis on classics on this site and since the Classics Circuit is currently on hiatus, I wanted to shout out two awesome classics projects. The first is Amanda’s Classics Blogger Directory. This is listing of self-submitted bloggers who like to read and post about the classics — it shows us that we
It’s well into June and I haven’t done a “last month in review” post. Since I’m trying to simplify blogging, I’m going to do things a little differently from now on, I think. This is a review of my Milton in May project (which I finished last week). My next “project in review” post will
I am not finished with Milton, despite the fact that May is over. I will have another Paradise Lost post (probably tomorrow) and probably two to four more posts in the two weeks – posts on the biography I finished, the C.S. Lewis commentary I’m reading, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and possibly some other Milton
I really love the concept of reading deliberately. Although I feel I have been doing this to some extent since I began blogging, when I saw the series of posts about this concept (who started it?!), I decided that “reading deliberately” is what I need to do with my 2010. There are so many books
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
In an effort to simplify my blogging life, I’ve decided I will no longer host the quarterly Martel-Harper Challenge. That challenge was to read two works per quarter from the list of books that Yann Martel sends to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Dewey started the project in October 2008, the month before she died,
Before I begin, I should clarify a few things. I hate being scared, and I hate horror. And I don’t dislike: I mean hate. And I don’t really like Halloween because I don’t even like candy (I’ll take it if you give it to me … but I’m not going to go seeking it) or
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