Well, it has been awhile again, but definitely do not equate my lack of posts with a lack of reading! Not sure if I will get all caught up today, but I have plenty of great stuff coming your way! And in a bit of a turn from my usual, I have taken the opportunity of a delightful summer environment (one free of required school reading, that is) to delve into some of the classics in a more relaxed fashion. Several of my upcoming posts will detail these.
Now, I note on these. Although I initially stated that my blog was going to be more a diary documenting the experience of trying to read 100 books this year (a goal which I can't say I am going to meet, but will not yet give up trying!) and less a critique of the books, I have somehow wound up writing reviews after all. Despite my initial misgivings about reviewing, I have indeed found this to be something I can get behind and might actually like doing on a semi-regular basis. That being said, it is one thing to review the latest in popular fiction on the must read aisle at Target, but it is an entirely different matter to "critique" Shakespeare. Obviously that would be a bit pretentious. Further, as I had previously insisted and once again reiterate, this is pleasure reading, not school reading. So just because it might be a work from the classical literature canon (no debates about the legitimacy of canons, please!), that does not mean I will be doing any sort of close reading or even really deep thinking. I am seeing if it is possible to read these for plot and pleasure only and then writing a few lines about what that feels like.
Oh, and there are still a few good and fresh reads in here too!
Ok, so that being said...
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