Category Archives: classics in literature

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Posted on February 11, 2017 by booksandbuttons

Settle back for a visit with Isabel Archer for 623 pages–but then, who’s counting? Isabel has been  brought to England from Albany NY (!) by an aunt, Mrs. Touchette, and as the book opens, she has arrived at Gardencourt—a lovely … Continue reading →

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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes final review

Posted on December 2, 2016 by booksandbuttons

Ho, ho, ho!  Summer reading project done before Christmas!  Yes, the book is finished.  Did you hear the firecrackers flying in Pennsylvania the other night?  907 pages, but who was counting?  (I was, and I’m afraid you might have been, … Continue reading →

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Sancho goes home to talk with Teresa

Posted on November 14, 2016 by booksandbuttons

Sancho goes home to talk to Teresa: After Sancho had fulfilled his duties as  squire to Don Quixote for a few weeks, he decided to return home and tell Teresa all of the good things that would be happening to … Continue reading →

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Don Quixote and Master Pedro by Miguel de Cervantes

Posted on November 6, 2016 by booksandbuttons

Still reading it—about 200 pages to go!  DQ and Sancho and I met an interesting character recently and I want to share him with you.  Maybe if you have read the book, you remember him.  It’s Master Pedro and he … Continue reading →

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Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Posted on July 29, 2016 by booksandbuttons

It’s on the summer reading list, but not a page turner for the beach! The book opens with a meeting of the higher up Roman clergy having a luncheon on a patio overlooking the hills of Rome in 1848.  Father … Continue reading →

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Reading in July and a summer reading list for 2016

Posted on July 12, 2016 by booksandbuttons

Hel-l-o-o-o! from way back when . . . I took an unexpected and UNWanted vacation for six weeks—sorry, didn’t mean to drop you like a hot potato– But I’m sort of ‘back’ and must get the two of us together … Continue reading →

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Visiting Yarmouth, Maine

Posted on May 14, 2016 by booksandbuttons

O’Half and I — away we went to Yarmouth, Maine! It’s about a seven hour trip.  And we took Woody! 

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Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Posted on April 20, 2016 by booksandbuttons

Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the monthly selection of my book club for April. I have read it before — but since that was in April 1965, somehow not all the details come to mind! 

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Billy Budd by Herman Melville

Posted on November 17, 2015 by booksandbuttons

It’s the book club selection for this month—meeting tonight.  Have you read it?  Back in high school?  I had never read it. This was Herman Melville’s last? late work after a series of failures and never published while he was … Continue reading →

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Trouble in River City

Posted on July 10, 2015 by booksandbuttons

“Oh, we got trouble–right here in River City with a capital T that rhymes with P and that stands for Pool!” The Music Man, Harold Hill, doesn’t know what trouble is—he’s not trying to read Doctor Zhivago for the July book … Continue reading →

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