Classics, Nonfiction, and Children's Literature
I’m pleased to announce that the Rebecca Reads family has grown by one! My second child, a little girl, was born February 22 at 6:25 in the morning. She was 7 lbs 7 oz and is doing well at being a newborn baby. I feel fantastic. This pregnancy was a lot more uncomfortable than my
I have not reviewed my past reading since the first of June, so bear with me as I review my reads. I really need to review periodically for my own sake. These posts are what prompt me to update my reviews database, for example. At any rate, I enjoyed my summer of Victorian literature and
My self-imposed blogging vacation was only about a week old before I started thinking of starting up again. But I told myself I needed to enforce that blogging break, and therefore wouldn’t “allow” myself to blog again until September. I instead spent time redesigning the site and pondering just what I want to be doing
I wanted to join Richard’s Dante readalong this summer, I really did. I decided that, since I loved reading Homer’s The Iliad and was planning on reading Virgil soon, I could read Dante this summer without too much trouble. Why not? I love classic epics. I read up on the whys behind each translation, I
I never intended that my first post for My Victorian Summer would come a full month after the inauguration of my project, but I’ve found that with summer weather, long books, and family in town, my blogging is becoming less of a priority than before. To my surprise, I’m okay with this. I may continue
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
A few weeks ago, I finished reading Emile Zola’s The Masterpiece (thoughts here). As you may recall, I wasn’t thrilled with it. Nevertheless, it has been haunting me. Shortly after I finished that Zola novel, I picked up The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. I found it rather frustrating to read. “What is the point?”
March was an odd month. Maybe you can tell because I’m just now writing my “Month in Review” post and the month is already a week gone. Not only did I take a ten-day hiatus from blogging in March, I also went a week without finishing a book. And then I did it again. I
I have more confidence in the dead than in the living. —William Hazlitt William Hazlitt was a contemporary of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge, not to mention Jane Austen. He was considered one of the most important critics and essayists of the English language, although he is little read today (see Wikipedia). I love his
I have decided it would be easier to ramble for six minutes than to try to write all of this out. So if you are interested to hear me talk about books, here’s a special St. Patrick’s Day vlog for you! If you didn’t have time to watch it (and for future reference), here are
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
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