I’m joining in the Classics Club spin #26, I put The Idiot on again, maybe if it gets picked this time I will finish since I’m at least 1/3 through. A Thomas Hardy novel Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas Cymbelline Henry VI,… Continue reading Classics Club Spin
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Review of Frankenstein
I read Frankenstein this month for The Classics Club October Dare. I’m a procrastinator, so I’m really lucky that I have a review done at all; I’m actually proud of myself since I did think ahead, takes notes, and make an outline. I just didn’t leave myself enough time for a couple drafts. And I… Continue reading Review of Frankenstein
Pickwick Papers
I had tried this novel before and this time around I took awhile to warm up to it, but then I enjoyed it greatly. Well, I enjoyed the Wellers immensely anyway. The plot was intentionally mishmash, if you could even say that the book had a plot. The tone varied from the lightest type of… Continue reading Pickwick Papers
Whimsey Collective Mini Mini-Review
Just read them. I read them.* I loved him them. I refused to read the sacrilegious last “book.” *I still have a few I need to order through interlibrary loan, but I think those might be mostly collections.
Our Mutual Friend Review
*SPOILERS* *SPOILERS* *SPOILERS* I recommend complete ignorance for first time readers (which means do not read covers, reviews, prefaces, chapter headings, and etc.). I remembered a little of what my sister told me (albeit it was sometimes quite a distorted memory) as I read and constantly referred to the headings of future chapters. Oh, Eugene.… Continue reading Our Mutual Friend Review
Blue Castle Mini-Review
I had seen this book appear on a couple blogs, but our library did not have it at the time and bought it on my recommendation but forgot to put in on my request list, so I only recently discovered that the library had it. Definitely worth the wait. Read for the first time in total… Continue reading Blue Castle Mini-Review
Daniel Deronda Review
I think that part of the reason why I have enjoyed some of the Dickens and Eliot books so much is because I am quite unfamiliar with the stories. I also greatly enjoy the writing style; so much so, in fact, that I do not have to love the characters (or many of them at… Continue reading Daniel Deronda Review
Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot Collective Review
Hello from Princess Procrastinator. Here is my Poirot collection “review” written who knows when after reading who knows when. If you want a shorter version it is this: I am not a fan. These are pretty silly and melodramatic although apparently some such as The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Murder on the Orient Express… Continue reading Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot Collective Review
Bleak House Review
So I did not entirely like this novel. Oh, I enjoyed it while I read it, but I found many aspects that I did not like. I found Esther rather irritating. I thought her false modesty and silly “innocence” of why other people like her was extremely annoying; true humility and goodness do not focus… Continue reading Bleak House Review
Review of Little Dorrit
The miniseries preview first somewhat inspired me to know this story. I was not ready for Dickens at this point, and when I picked up the book and perused it, Mr. Clennam’s age and that awful Pet disgusted me. I still loathe Pet and her family. How dare she exist for Clennam to love. How… Continue reading Review of Little Dorrit
The Phantom of the Opera
I find it incredible that anyone could remain “team Phantom” after reading the novel (not that I really sympathizing with him much anyway). By the way, the Viscomte de Chagny is 40ish year old Philippe and Raoul is his 20 years younger brother the Comte de Chagny. Christine Daae is Swedish, and Carlotta is the… Continue reading The Phantom of the Opera
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Mini-Review
The tone of this book was better than Unnatural Death plus for Wimsey, more personal (although much less than in Clouds of Witness). Less ghastly and only one murder. One love match. More mystery. Actually, towards the end the detectives make discoveries so fast and reveal so little that I was bewildered and thought that I… Continue reading The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Mini-Review