Yes, it’s another meme — but this one involves LibraryThing, my favouritest website in the whole wide world, and so I could hardly exist resist. (I totally just typed “exist” instead of “resist” — but what the hey, I’m leaving it). My variation on the rules as laid out below is that I haven’t struck [...]
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Canadian Fiction, Woo!
I had the (mostly) pleasure of taking a course in Canadian Fiction at the university this year. Like my Victorian Fiction class, I enjoyed the reading material much more than I enjoyed the class itself. I think that if I am being honest, all of my classes tend to be like that. After all, most [...]
Lists and Categories
I ran across a link to this today, which is the 110 Best Books as determined by The Telegraph. I don’t know if there’s anything particularly new or original about it — people are always making lists of “best” books — but a couple of things did catch my eye. One of the things I [...]
Victorian Fiction, Woo!
This past year I took a Victorian Fiction course. It was actually called “British Fiction 1832-1900″ — but Victorian Fiction, I think, is what is really meant. English Victorian fiction, at that; for all the “British” in the title we only ended up reading one work which weren’t by an English author. At any rate, [...]
Oh frabjous day, calloo callay!
I finished classes today. In essence I finished my third year of university today, barring one more exam which will take place later this month. I am finished! (I would like to say that it feels glorious, or something, but I’ve been up since 6:30 and in truth it feels like any other day, except [...]
Sunday Salon: Atonement, Tess, and Sundry
The afternoon started rather bookishly as my brother and I repaired to Chapters after church to buy some books. He goes every week generally and buys one book, as a means to grow his library; I accompanied him this week as I had a gift card to the order of $20. Twenty dollars! It seems [...]
March Books
Happy April! It is, I think, so far, a happy April — we here are finally seeing evidence of spring. Almost all of the snow is gone, and though things aren’t really growing much yet, there is a lot of mud, which is a good sign. Over the past month, I seem to have read [...]
Meme: 100 Books
Look at the list of (100) books below. Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you want to read. Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in. (Movies don’t count.) 1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) 2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) 3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) 4. Gone With [...]