ONE IS ASKED TO COPY THE FIRST LINE OR TWO OF A CURRENT READ TO SEE IF OTHERS MAY WANT TO PUT THAT BOOK ON THEIR TBR.I try to read a classic every two months.
This classic is in addition to the Classics Club challenge I gave myself in 2021. I am hoping in 2022 to finish a classic every other month, giving me two months to read what is sometimes a more difficult book.
For January and February, I have begun Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. I have always been interested in this male author with a female name because Evelyn is my middle name. I have read at least two other books by him, Winds of War and another novel which was a satire of he funeral industry (If my beleaguered memory serves me right). After a lengthy introduction and information on the author, the Prologue begins as follows:
“When I reached ‘C’ company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning. We were leaving that day.”
An end, indeed to an encampment during wartime, but the beginning of a narrative one is not likely to forget for the reader. I look forward to this novel and suspect it will be a “darned good read.”
This year (2019) finds me with 50 plus years of teaching "under my belt." I have taught all levels from pre-K "(library lady" or "book lady"--volunteer) to juniors, seniors, and graduate students enrolled in my Advanced Writing class at the university where I have just completed 30 years. My first paying teaching job was junior high, and I spent 13 years with ages 12-13, the "difficult years." I had some of the "funnest" experiences with this age group. When I was no longer the "young, fun teacher," I taught in an elementary school setting before sixth graders went on to junior high, teaching language arts blocs, an assignment that was a "dream-fit" for me. After completing graduate school in my 40s, I went on to community college, then university teaching.
Just as teaching is "in my blood," so is a passion for reading, writing, libraries, and everything bookish.
This blog will be open to anyone who loves books, promotes literacy and wants to "come out and play."
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It is a very powerful novel with some characters you might not like very much, but even so! I hope you enjoy it – I read it decades ago, but I still remember a whole lot. I’m doing the Classics Club “dare” for February and reading The Wide Sargasso Sea!
I read Sargasso for last year’s Classic Club and wasn’t wildly enthusiastic. I reviewed it on Powerful Women Readers back when I read it (summer, I think, or maybe spring). Brideshead is at a tedious point right now. I am trudging and looking forward to finishing it.
I’m enjoying Sargasso so far – very dreamlike and innocent, if a touch confusing. I don’t remember totally, but I think I recall that the second half of Brideshead gets more interesting.
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It is a very powerful novel with some characters you might not like very much, but even so! I hope you enjoy it – I read it decades ago, but I still remember a whole lot. I’m doing the Classics Club “dare” for February and reading The Wide Sargasso Sea!
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I read Sargasso for last year’s Classic Club and wasn’t wildly enthusiastic. I reviewed it on Powerful Women Readers back when I read it (summer, I think, or maybe spring). Brideshead is at a tedious point right now. I am trudging and looking forward to finishing it.
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I’m enjoying Sargasso so far – very dreamlike and innocent, if a touch confusing. I don’t remember totally, but I think I recall that the second half of Brideshead gets more interesting.
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