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Tag Archives: summer reading list
Summer Reading Plan for 2015
It’s Memorial Day weekend and that puts me in the mind of summer being right around the corner. It’s been a splendid spring of color–great year for the daffodils, azaleas–but the rhododendrons were pretty hard hit by winter this year. … Continue reading
“She” by Henry Rider Haggard— the end! Part VII
Let’s raise our glasses! The book is finished! When we left our “party” they were headed downward into endless caverns following Ayesha, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, who went “springing from step to step, like a chamois . . .” It took them a … Continue reading
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more about summer reading list
Thank you, Catherine, for your comment. I’ll be interested to read your review of The Other Side of the Bridge. Last night I decided to get busy on my “summer reading list” since the days of August are fast a-flying … Continue reading
Summer Reading List 2011
If there’s an X, I have read it Mary Shelley Frankenstein Brendan Gill When the Money Stopped HI,CFI (Have it, can’t find it) Charlotte Bronté X Jane Eyre John Cheever X Stories Dorothy Sayers X Gaudy Night George Eliot Daniel Deronda Dai Sijie Balzac … Continue reading