I think i may have put this off long enough and the time has come for me to make an admission that I really don’t want to make. For both the 1% Well-Read Challenge and the Classics Challenge I read Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice. I finished the book a few weeks ago already [...]
Archive for August, 2008
7 Aug
Booking Through Thursday #17 – Other Worlds
The questions posed this week are questions I’ve never really considered before and have therefore made me do some thinking back on books I’ve read and consider the books I enjoy reading.
Are there any particular worlds in books where you’d like to live?
Or where you certainly would NOT want to live?
What about authors? If you [...]
7 Aug
Classics Challenge – The Trojan Women
In preparation to my viewing of The Trojan Women at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival later on this season I decided to read Euripides’ play The Trojan Women. I must say that now I’ve read it I’m looking forward to the show even more than I did before. With the Stratford production staring Martha Henry in [...]
5 Aug
Booking Through Thursday #16 – Endings
Before I’m told I’m well aware that it’s not Thursday but I wanted to still answer the question posed for last week’s Booking Through Thursday, as it’s sort of a continuation from the previous post. So, without further waiting here it is:
What are your favourite final sentences from books? Is there a book that you [...]
5 Aug
Little Bit & Big Byte
I received a copy of Little Bit & Big Byte written by Craig T. Feigh and illustrated by Patrick Carlson. The idea of this new children’s book was to introduce youngsters to computer components since the majority of them are already using them. When I was asked to review an advanced copy of Little Bit [...]
