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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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Weekly Lists #175: Classics I Wish Had Modern Adaptations
One of my favourite things lately has been retellings of classics. You know the type, where Pride and Prejudice takes place in an American college, or Persuasion is suddenly between the daughter of…
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Weekly Lists #158: Favorite Children’s Classics
There’s some books that, probably, just about every kid has read, right? You know the ones – on your set reading list, not that much cuz you had to read them… That’s not all…
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Weekly Lists #155: Favorite Modern Classics
Fact: calling a book a “classic” has little to nothing to do with the age of a book. It is basically just a way of saying “this one is for the ages”. Sure, that…
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Weekly Lists #152: Favorite French Classics
While I don’t talk about it that much on here, once upon a time: I studied French literature and linguistics. Fun times, I tell ya. The best thing about that, though? It gave me…
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Weekly Lists #150: Favorite American Classics
Quite often, when they hear “the big classics”, they think of the British classics. Hah, the Jane Austens and Charles Dickens’ of this world… But here’s the thing – and it’s something that’s…
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Weekly Lists #148: Favorite British Classics
As a literature major, reading classics sort of comes with the territory. I mean, whether I liked it or not? I was going to read the major classics of the languages I was studying.…
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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…
