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About Books #118: Lives and Deaths
Every once in a while, it’s nice to be pleasantly surprised by a classic. Or at least – to be reminded, again, that “classic” doesn’t automatically mean “boring”. In the case of Tolstoy’s…
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Reviewing the Classics #8: Isolde
It’s been a while, I feel, that I’ve reviewed anything but romance on this blog. And for a while, that was actually just about all I was reading. But every once in a…
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Reviewing the Classics #7: The Little Prince
Some classics have been around for centuries, other for a only a couple of years. They might be aimed at adults, others at children. Some took years to gain their status, others just…
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Reviewing the Classics #6: War of the Worlds
This is one of those cases where I basically did it to myself. First of all, I’m not usually all that keen on the kind of books where aliens come to the world.…
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Reviewing the Classics #5: The Railway Children
I’m pretty sure I already mentioned this somewhere, but I first read this book when I was sick. I’d always ask my dad to bring me some books from the library (because even…
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Reviewing the Classics #4: Little Women
Little Women was probably the first classic I ever read. That’s to say: my grand-parents had an abreviated children’s version of it and I loved it. I actually read it so often that they eventually…
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Reviewing the Classics #3: Beatrix Potter’s Complete Tales
So I’m rereading classics and reviewing them – and even though this one isn’t technically Literature-with-capital-L, I absolutely feel that it does belong here (if only for the art, which is amazing) So…
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Reviewing the Classics #2: The Scarlet Letter
As I said last time, reading more classics and reviewing more books has led me to create this new series, in which I review some of the great “literary classics” which are largely…
