Hello!
My chosen quote this week is by one of my favourites, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
Oscar Wilde
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Mid Week Quote: Oscar Wilde
WWW Wednesday: 21/09/2022
WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words.
The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
- What are you currently reading?
- What did you recently finish reading?
- What do you think you will read next?
Hello!
I hope everyone is having a good week so far. I was back at school today which has meant a very long day but I managed to get some reading done during my lunch break.
What I am Currently Reading
I am half way through this so far and really enjoying it. I do enjoy a Maigret book.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I started off really enjoying this but towards the end I did find it a bit wearing. The dialect at times could be a difficult and this just made the book feel harder work than it should have done.
What I Think I will Read Next
I’m hoping to read a few more of my short books before the end of September. I must admit setting myself the challenge of only reading books that are 300 pages or less has really made a difference to my TBR pile.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
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The Classics Club: Spin #31 – Results
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The results are in and the number was 2. This means my next read off my Classics Club challenge will be The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy.
In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in Dorset, now in a new edition, Hardy narrates the rivalry for the hand of Grace Melbury between a simple and loyal woodlander and an exotic and sophisticated outsider. Betrayal, adultery, disillusion, and moral compromise are all worked out in a setting evoked as both beautiful and treacherous. The Woodlanders, with its thematic portrayal of the role of social class, gender, and evolutionary survival, as well as its insights into the capacities and limitations of language, exhibits Hardy’s acute awareness of his era’s most troubling dilemmas.
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Hopefully, I will be able to finish and review The Woodlanders before the deadline of 30th October.
Please drop me a comment if you are doing the Classics Club challenge or if you have taken part in the Spin Challenge.
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Goodreads Monday: 19/09/2022
Goodreads Monday is now hosted by Budget Tales Book Club. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.
Hello!
I hope everyone has had a good start to the week so far. I have gone for another book off my Classics Club list because they are all on my vast Goodreads TBR.
Alongside Edgar Allan Poe in America, Britain’s Wilkie Collins stands as the inventor of the modern detective story. The Moonstone introduces all the ingredients: a homey, English country setting, and a colorfully exotic background in colonial India; the theft of a fabulous diamond from the lovely heroine; a bloody murder and a tragic suicide; a poor hero in love with the heroine but suspected of the crime, who can’t remember anything about the night the jewel was stolen; assorted friends, relatives, servants, a lawyer, a doctor, a sea captain—suspects, all; and, most essentially, a bumbling local policeman and a brilliant if eccentric London detective. Adding spice to the recipe are unexpected twists, a bit of dark satire, a dash of social comment, and an unusual but effective narrative structure—eleven different voices relate parts of the tale, each revealing as much about himself (and, in one case, herself) as about the mystery of the missing Moonstone.
Filled with suspense, action, and romance, The Moonstone is as riveting and intoxicating today as it was when it first appeared more than a century ago.
I read The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins recently and I could not put it down, so I am quite excited to read this soon, as I just love Wilkie Collins.
Have you got a favourite Wilkie Collins book?
Please drop me a comment if you have taken part in Goodreads Monday and I will head over for a visit.
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The Weekly Brief
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I hope everyone has had a nice weekend so far. I have had a better week blogging this week but not so good reading wise.
Posts this Week
- Goodreads Monday
- Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (Review)
- WWW Wednesday
- Mid Week Quote: Albus Dumbledore
- This and That Thursday
- Friday Poetry: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- The Classics Club: Spin #31
Currently Reading
Enjoying this so far but I am finding the dialogue a bit trying at times.
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The Classics Club: Spin #31
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It is time for another spin event from The Classics Club. I really enjoyed the last one I did, because it chose me an absolutely brilliant book that I think I would have left to the end of the challenge. So here are my 20 books, whichever number gets picked on the 18th September I will read and review the book before the set date of 30th October.
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
- The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Cecilia by Frances Burney
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome. K. Jerome
- The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
- Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
- Evelina by Frances Burney
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
- The Runaway by Elizabeth Anna Hart
- The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
- Candide by Voltaire
I’m really looking forward to what the random selection will be and I hope I will be able to read the book within the time frame.
Wish me luck!
Please drop me a comment if you are taking part in the Spin event or if you have read any of the books on my list.
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Friday Poetry: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Happy Friday!
My chosen poem today is by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Gerard Manley Hopkins was born on the 28th July 1844, he was an English poet and Jesuit priest. His two main themes in his poetry are nature and religion. He died in 1889 of what is believed to be typhoid fever. His work was largely ignored during his life but was published posthumously.
Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things - For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; Landscape plotted and pieced - fold, fallow, and plough; And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him. Gerard Manley Hopkins
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This and That Thursday
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I hope everyone is well and having a good week so far. We are still trying to go on plenty of adventures whilst the weather is still decent. Here are our most recent adventures.
Ludlow Castle and Ludlow
We love visiting Ludlow but haven’t been for quite a long time due to covid so it was really nice to go back. We spent most of the day going around the castle but we also found an amazing little music shop where I bought a lot of music books. I did go around a bookshop but i just didn’t find a book that really interested me.
Chirk Castle
We have both been to Chirk Castle before but neither of us could remember much of it so we decided to go for another visit and I am so glad we did because it is such a wonderful place and has the biggest Grandfather clock we have ever seen.
Warner Brother Harry Potter Studio Tour
It was my husbands birthday yesterday and he asked to go to the Harry Potter Studio tour for his birthday, so yesterday we spent a wonderful day going around the tour. It was really good to see the new exhibits in the back lot and have a go at pulling out a Mandrake.
Hughenden Manor
We spent the night away last night so on the way home today we visited a new National Trust property for us, Hughenden Manor. Hughenden Manor was the home of Benjamin Disraeli and it had the most amazing library, although smaller than some of the libraries I have seen in National Trust properties I just loved it, it was so cozy and well organised. I could happily have spent all day in that room.
Hopefully the adventures continue.
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Mid Week Quote: Albus Dumbledore
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Today I am going around the Harry Potter Studio Tour for my husbands birthday so I have decided to go for a quote from Albus Dumbledore.
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
Albus Dumbledore
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WWW Wednesday: 14/09/2022
WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words.
The rules are answer the questions below and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
- What are you currently reading?
- What did you recently finish reading?
- What do you think you will read next?
Hello
I hope everyone is having a good week so far. Reading is still going well so far this month so I am hoping to make a serious dent in my TBR pile and Goodreads Challenge.
What I am Currently Reading
I started this yesterday and so far I am really enjoying it.
What I have Recently Finished Reading
I can’t quite believe I managed to finish three books in a week but reading shorter books is really helping my pace.
What I Think I will Read Next
Hopefully I will start reading one of these this week.
Please drop me a comment with your WWW Wednesday and I will head over for a visit.
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