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This book will complete round 3 of our traveling book club! Such a wonderful group of ladies to have “met” here on Litsy! #coverToCover

Usually I choose one fiction and one non-fiction favorite, but this month I could not decide between a new fun read with Sourdough or an almost forgotten classic with Ziska for fiction. I also had some well-loved rereads with The Silmarillion and Anne of Green Gables, but I went with new choices for my stats.

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This book was recommended by a friend as a different kind of gothic novel from what I had read, and I really enjoyed it. I don‘t quite know how to describe the story without giving too much information, but I appreciated the strength of Princess Ziska and how it turned a few gothic tropes on their heads. For example, the man is the one who is so overcome that he faints, and in one scene he distracts himself with the “frothiest of French novels.”

Happy Friday Night! This is the first book I put on my #LitsyAtoZ list and one of the last two that I still need to read almost a year later. It was recommended by a good friend from her gothic lit class, and so far I‘m enjoying it. The story starts in Cairo, which is an interesting change of pace from other gothic novels I‘ve read.

This novel was recommended by a friend from one of her literature classes. It's my choice for fulfilling all the letter Z prompts on challenges for next year.

#SeasonsReadings2016

I decided to go ahead and sign up for the Litsy A to Z Challenge, but this is the only book I'll be putting on my planning list until I finish my school work for the semester and the reading for my 2016 challenges!

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