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A Great Find!
I share a birthday season (Thanksgiving - New Year's) with a few friends from high school. This year we decided to re-read Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot. All I remembered about the book was romance, romance. But this time around..this mature reader was delighted with the historical elements as well as the Jewish element - very interesting.
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The Company of the Dead - David Kowalski
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When even SparkNotes is too much effort...
Ever wanted to get the gist of a classic novel in, say, less than thirty seconds?
The Book-A-Minute Classics website might be just what you're looking for.
My personal favourite is the condensed version of Hardy's Return of the Native:
Rugged land;
Rustic folks.
Prodigal returns.
Everyone croaks.
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I thought it might be a good idea to list some useful book-related websites on the blotts_attic info page. At the moment that list is very short:
The New York Review of Books
Project Gutenberg
Books @ the BBC
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No Present Like Time - Steph Swainston
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Borders has arrived in Canberra! I can live again.
Ahem.
Four chapters into The God Delusion and I am completely in love with Richard Dawkins. I especially like his discussion on atheist pride and the onus of proof resting on believers. I was also *outraged* by the fiddling which goes on with John Lennon's lyrics in Imagine - "and no ( Read more... ) -
Introduction
Hi! My name is... Christi
And I found blotts_attic through... a search for communties interested Henry Miller, or was it Evelyn Waugh?
My favourite novel of all time is... by... because... Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller because it literally changed my life. Miller inspired me with his words into major decisions - like moving across the ( Read more... ) -
Er... Hello
Hi! My name is... Louisa
And I found blotts_attic through... searching english literature
My favourite novel of all time is... Middlemarch by... George Eliot because... it is such a complex story... and I can identify slightly with Dorothea Brooke (although I'm not married to an old boring person).
The three authors whose works I think everyone ( Read more... ) -
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This is a semi random quote taken from the Jasper Fforde FAQ page on his website. I thought it was funny :D
Is it true you read Tess backwards so it has a happy ending?
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Devices and Desires - KJ Parker
(book 1 in The Engineer Trilogy ( Read more... )