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My #ClassicsChallenge2020! I almost made it to 20, although my goal was two a month. Definitely want to keep track again this year! More Christie for #AgathaChristieClubR2 and Austen for #Pemberlittens, of course, and then I‘m not sure what else! I do want to try to finish the LOTR trilogy at some point though, so that might be this year. Who knows?! I always love starting a new year of reading. Feels so full of possibility! 🤓

“Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father.”

My first Baldwin.

#firstlinefridays #classicschallenge2020 #currentread

Another great reading week. I‘ve been carving out time to read every morning when I wake up and it shows.

Two classics finished for #classicschallenge2020 and I also finished my December #bookspin. #bookreport

21 books in November!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻

12 physical books
1 @SerialReader
8 audiobooks

4 books I‘m counting toward #classicschallenge2020 (Sense & Sensibility, The Scarlet Plague, Mansfield Park, and The Shuttle)

“This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is.” ~EVA
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#currentlyreading #classicschallenge2020

Whoa! I'm using this as my Erotic choice for #BBRC @LibrarianRyan @Sarahreadstoomuch Very risque for 1933 and when the father-in-law kept talking about his son's wife's breasts, and when she protested, he gave her money. That isn't even the worst thing he did. Gag me with a spoon. This is supposed to be a satire, but I am offended. Was Caldwell adding to the stereotype that the Southern people were incestuous, backward people? Set in GA.

Another great read ruminating on books and what they mean to the world, but this time with intrigue! I must admit though, I prefer Parnassus. 📚

+16 pts #teamslaughter #scarathlon #screamathon
#cocoturns50 #readyourway #classicschallenge2020

I have mixed feelings.

Pluses: modern science - blood transfusions, phonograph recordings. Great, shocking imagery.

Wishes: I could have beheaded the vampire quicker than those professional hunters and doctors. Van Helsing aggravated the snot out of me. His disuse of verb tense and his irritating way of saying - I won't tell you now, we have time to wait, it will all become clear soon.

3 hours X 4 readathons

146 points

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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I wanted to like this memoir more than I did. I guess I expected a story of overcoming prejudice, but I was disheartened by the antagonism on both sides of the fence. I was sickened and heartbroken by Maya‘s experiences with abandonment and rape, but I don‘t feel as if I learned anything positive from the reading of this book. #readtheusa #arkansas #classicschallenge2020

A few people have mentioned how accessible this classic is. I agree, the story and format were much more engaging that I expected. BUT BRAM, did it need to be so long?! It dragged on. Cut it by 100 pages and it would be a pick. #booked2020 #gothichorror #classicschallenge2020