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Tag Archives: Jane Austen
Hashtag Jane Austen
Twitter has misinformed me. There I was, getting all excited about #AustenInAugust, and it turns out not to be a thing. It was a thing in 2019, but apparently not this year.* Do I care? Not a fig, for that tiny … Continue reading
Seven Bookish Virtues/Sins Tag
Looks like all my blogging friends are playing this game of tag, and it’s my turn to be IT. Ola G at Re-enchantment of the World, Lory at Emerald City Book Review, Chris at Calmgrove, and I-can’t-remember-who-else (sorry, blogger buddies, … Continue reading
Posted in Am reading, Favorite books, Lists, reading
Tagged Arthur Ransome, Eduardo Galeano, EF Benson, Eric Kraft, George Eliot, George Saunders, Hendrik Van Loon, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, JRR Tolkien, Marcel Proust, Mary Norton, Mikhail Bulgakov, Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman, Roland Huntford
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Why I love libraries
I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir, but I’d like to point out what can happen in a library that can’t happen anywhere else: discovering old books you never even knew had been written. I’d gone to my college libe to borrow … Continue reading
“Run mad as often as you chuse”
I’m fighting the urge to re-read all of Jane Austen. The compulsion began yesterday, with Emma (I forced myself to put it down, at the point where Emma and Harriet are most hopeful about Mr. Elton’s intentions). I could easily … Continue reading
