Laura from Laura’s Reviews has planned a wonderdul new book challenge for the coming year: All About the Brontës.
The challenge starts on January 1st and will run through June 30th 2010. The objective is to read, watch, or listen to 3 to 6 (if not more) works by, about, or inspired by the Brontë sisters.
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Entries Tagged as ‘What I'm reading’
November 11, 2009
All About the Brontes
November 9, 2009
Monday reading list
Last week, I finished reading:
Happy Birthday or Whatever by Annie Choi (Review)
I started reading:
Cherry Cheesecake Murder by Joanne Fluke
I’m still reading:
An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
Eventually, I will return to:
Cecilia by Frances Burney
I want to read:
Jane Austen’s Letters
November 2, 2009
What I’m reading Monday
Here’s what I’m reading:
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (20 pages to go!)
An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
Last week, I finished reading:
Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery
The Door in the Hedge by Robin McKinley
I want to start reading:
Happy Birthday or Whatever by Annie Choi
I need to get back to reading:
Cecilia by [...]
October 26, 2009
It’s Monday. What are you reading?
My first Monday reading post how exciting!
I’m reading:
Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
I really want to finish Rilla by the end of this week. Tenant is my book to read at work, as Echo is too heavy to carry [...]
March 26, 2009
in-betweens
I’m reading Collette’s Complete Claudine but despite Claudine’s charm, the narrative is starting to drag a bit and I’ve decided to take a break from Collette.
I just finished reading Jane Harris’s The Observations and Lisa See’s Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
The Observations is similar in tone to Sarah Water’s Fingersmith but the intrigue [...]
February 2, 2008
ELLIOT OF KELLYNCH-HALL
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older–the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. – Persuasion
When I’m in a slump, I always return to Austen. And, as all the recent adaptations, remakes, and attempts at imitation have shown, I am not the only one.
Like many Austen fans, [...]
January 27, 2008
it’s a gamble
I find that my attention span suffered greatly after the holidays. Aside from school stuff, I’ve been jumping from one book to another, so I’ve yet to finish any of the selections that I’ve started. However, Barnes and Noble made a killing during my “ooh! Books on sale. I’ll read them eventually. Buy buy buy” [...]
January 2, 2008
on the bedside table
I’m reading. I’m reading. Slowly. And it will only get slower come the 7th.
Right now, I’m on The Namesake and The Amber Spyglass.
Initial reactions…
The Namesake has really caught my interest… I’m only two chapters in, but it seems to be a displacement/bildungsroman sort of novel. Looking forward to more.
The Amber Spyglass… as always, it takes [...]
