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A Crazy Reading Challenge
Today’s post is about 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley. The last chapter of this book made a big impact on me. The first 12 chapters discuss the novel – its origins, psychology, morality,...
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100 Novels Reading List 31-40
31. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Melville 32. The House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne 33.Madame Bovary Flaubert 34. A Tale of Two Cities Dickens 35. The Woman in White, The Moonstone Collins 36. Fathers...
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100 Novels Reading List 61-70
61. Lady Chatterly’s Lover D. H. Lawrence 62. Orlando Virginia Wolf 63. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 64. The Man Without Qualities, vol. 1 Robert Musil 65. And Quiet Flows the Don Mikhail Sholokhov...
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100 Novels Reading List 71-80
We’re almost there… 71. The Makioka Sisters Junichiro Tanizaki 72. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 73. The Fountain Overflows Rebecca West 74. The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate, Don’t Tell Alfred...
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100 Novels Reading List 81-90
Here we go… 81. The Harafish Naguib Mahfouz 82. The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch 83. How Far Can You Go? David Lodge 84. Loitering With Intent Muriel Spark 85. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler...
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100 Novels Reading List 91-100
The final 10: 91. Vox Nicholson Baker 92. WLT: A Radio Romance Garrison Keillor 93. Behind the Scenes at the Museum Kate Atkinson 94. A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry 95. Guided Tours of Hell Francine...
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Evening With Bats (a blitz poem)
Chairs on Deck (Photo credit: herzogbr) shadows are long shadows on a summer evening evening out evening is thinking thinking of what we’ve done thinking it wasn’t enough enough is sufficient enough of...
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What I’m Reading
Sybille of Cleves by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1526. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Princess of Cleves – Madame de LaFayette A French novel written in 1678, is what we would now regard as an historical...
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Why Do I Bring Up Thoreau in a Discussion on “Oroonoko” by Aphra Behn?
English: Portrait by Benjamin D. Maxham (daguerreotype), black and white of Henry David Thoreau in June 1856. The writer-collar post a beard and is dressed in a black frock coat, a white shirt and a...
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