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I'm also blogging about middlebrow literature at hermiddlebrow.wordpress.com
Word of the day: ben-feaker, noun.
Books Mentioned:
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Victory’s Price by Alexander Freed
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Anne’s House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery
Word of the day: hendecad, noun.
Books Mentioned:
Armadale by Wilkie Collins
The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
Victory’s Price by Alexander Freed
The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
Truth is Not Sober by Winifred Holtby
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
Some of her books:
The World My Wilderness
Crewe Train
The Pleasure of Ruins
The Towers of Trebizond
They Were Defeated
What Not
Dangerous Acts
My Sources:
1. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-34668
2. Guerinot, J. V. “The Pleasures of Rose Macaulay.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 33, no. 1, 1987, pp. 110–128. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/441336. Accessed 13 Mar. 2021.
Word of the day: puckerbrush, noun.
Books Mentioned:
Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery
Readalongs Mentioned:
#2021ThomasHardy (on Instagram)
#TrollopeinBarsetshire2021 (on Instagram)
Word of the day: puppify, verb.
Readathons and Readalongs Mentioned:
#2021ThomasHardy - on Instagram
March of the Mammoths - hosted by bigalbooks (youtu.be/1pfKTIfuZBY); Old Blue's Chapter and Verse (youtu.be/g4nq_mOwIj0); A Cruel Reader's Thesis (youtu.be/zYrxR52AUuQ)
March of the Moderns - hosted by Margaret Pinard (youtu.be/L0uzlaGJk3U)
Books Mentioned:
The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
Anderby Wold by Winifred Holtby
The Land of Green Ginger by Winifred Holtby
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
Frost in May by Antonia White
The Knight of Cheerful Countenance by Molly Keane (M.J. Farrell)
Short stories by Zora Neale Hurston
Word of the day: armisonous, adjective.
March of the Moderns Resources:
Margaret Pinard's announcement video (youtu.be/L0uzlaGJk3U)
Margaret's instagram: @margaretpinard
My instagram: @tonibooktext
Buddy Read Sign-up Sheet (bit.ly/2Nh0d4m)
Other Readathons Mentioned:
March of the Mammoths hosts' announcements:
bigalbooks (youtu.be/1pfKTIfuZBY)
Old Blue's Chapter and Verse (youtu.be/g4nq_mOwIj0)
A Cruel Reader's Thesis (youtu.be/zYrxR52AUuQ)
Middle Grade March hosts' announcements:
Booksandjams (youtu.be/YtEMDDxQWAY)
Life Between Words (youtu.be/cXv2mMUeuMo)
The Curly Reader (youtu.be/cGSbYDuYyoI)
Books Shown:
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
Summer by Edith Wharton
Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather
High Rising by Angela Thirkell
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Word of the day: muscose, adjective.
Books Mentioned:
The Martian in the Wood by Stephen Baxter
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
For Times of Trouble by Jeffrey R. Holland
Thirteen Guests by J. Jefferson Farjeon
Alphabet Squadron by Alexander Freed
A Winter Away by Elizabeth Fair
A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
What Works at Work by Daniel Hogan
Snowblind by Ragnar Jonasson
Village School by Miss Read
Word of the day: pickthank, noun.
Books mentioned:
Sister Age by M.F.K. Fisher
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The New Moon with the Old by Dodie Smith
Magic for Marigold by L.M. Montgomery
Mistress Pat by L.M. Montgomery
Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple by Susanna Rowson
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Freya by Anthony Quinn
Thrush Green by Miss Read
Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder by Gyles Brandreth
The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardam
Word of the day: delenda, noun.
Books Mentioned:
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery
Shadow Fall by Alexander Freed
Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Readalongs Mentioned:
#2021ThomasHardy (on Instagram)
#TrollopeinBarsetshire2021 (on Instragram)
#invisiblecitiesproject (on Instagram and Youtube)
Word of the day: coxcombery, noun.
Books mentioned:
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
Book Giving Tag questions:
1. Do you give books as gifts? If so, to whom?
2. Do you receive many books as gifts? Are they usually successful?
3. When you buy yourself books, do you think of them as gifts?
4. Do you consider used books to be acceptable gifts?
5. If you could receive a gift card for any bookshop/book website, which would you choose?
6. Gift wrapping? Gift bag? Bare presentation?
7. Can you communicate to others when a book is a lend and not a gift?
8. Have you ever given someone an e-book?
9. Name 5 books you'd love to receive as gifts.
10. Tag some book/gift people!
Word of the day: coopetition, noun.
Books Mentioned:
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Coming To Light edited by Brian Swann
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
Packing My Library by Alberto Manguel
Let’s be friends! I’m on Instagram as tonibooktext, and I’m on Goodreads.
Word of the day: antennation, noun.
Books Mentioned:
84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff
The Martian in the Wood by Stephen Baxter
Thirteen Guests by J. Jefferson Farjeon
Alphabet Squadron by Alexander Freed
Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy
A Winter Away by Elizabeth Fair
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
Village School by Miss Read
Snow Blind by Ragnar Jonasson
Readathons/Readalongs Mentioned:
#84CCRNYD hosted by Sarah @ Hardcover Hearts (youtu.be/yqd5LiYOu8o)
Cloak and Dagger Christmas (youtu.be/SaMR6ZBLRoQ)
#2021ThomasHardy
Invisible Cities Project (youtu.be/rryDPz8JqkA) - the various amazing hosts are listed in this video
Word of the day: sprusado, noun.
Videos Mentioned:
Possible 2021 TBR, part 1 (youtu.be/b6xZicoDbk4)
Possible 2021 TBR, part 2 (youtu.be/bUrFVtYrFNo)
Instagram Hashtags Mentioned:
#2021thomashardy
#trollopeinbarsetshire2021
I'm on Instagram as tonibooktext. Come be my friend!
Word of the day: delibation, noun.
Books Mentioned:
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
Word of the day: garboil, noun.
Books Mentioned:
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Farm in the Green Mountains by Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer
The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Child from the Sea by Elizabeth Goudge
Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart
Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James
The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
Snow Blind by Ragnar Jonasson
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
The Muse by Jessie Burton
The Death of Sheherzad by Intizar Husain
Let me know if you would like to buddy read any of these books!
Word of the day: ambilogy, noun.
Books Mentioned:
Death in a Tenured Position by Amanda Cross
Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P.D. James
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
Thirteen Guests by J. Jefferson Farjeon
The Tale of Hill Top Farm by Susan Wittig Albert
Word of the day: sprunny, noun.
Books Mentioned:
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery
The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Anderby Wold by Winifred Holtby
The Land of Green Ginger by Winifred Holtby
Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
Frost in May by Antonia White
The Knight of Cheerful Countenance by Molly Keane
A Winter Away by Elizabeth Fair
Village School by Miss Read
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
The White Plague by Frank Herbert
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Cordelia Underwood by Van Reid
An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor
Ibid* by Mark Dunn
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Word of the day: overberg, adj.
Booktuber Mentioned:
Miranda Mills (youtu.be/A538bd_1O2s)
Books Mentioned:
Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson
Death in a Tenured Position by Amanda Cross
Shepherds Abiding by Jan Karon
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams
Small Teaching Online by Flower Darby with James M. Lang
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
What Works at Work by Daniel Hogan
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
High Rising by Angela Thirkell
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P.D. James
Word of the day: cryonaut, noun.
Books Mentioned:
Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
(Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith)
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker
(Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams)
I'm also on Instagram @tonibooktext.
Prompts:
Study - book about your profession, what you studied in college, or what you would like to learn more about
Library - a book that references books or that you borrow from the library
Hall - a book that enters you into a new-to-you author, series, or subgenre
Billiard Room - the next numbered book in a series or a book involving sports/games
Conservatory - a book featuring nature, travel, or warm climate
Kitchen - a cozy food-based mystery or a small town mystery
Dining Room - a closed-circle mystery, or small group of people like at a hotel or dining party
Lounge - a book written or set in the Golden Age (1920s-30s)
Ballroom - a book featuring a party
Group Read: “The Birds” (short story) by Daphne du Maurier
Group Watch: “Agatha and the Truth of Murder”
Word of the day: reptiliferous, adjective.
Books Mentioned:
Death in a Tenured Position by Amanda Cross
The Tale of Hill Top Farm by Susan Wittig Albert
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
Thirteen Guests by J. Jefferson Farjeon
Word of the day: anxiogenic, adjective.
Books Mentioned:
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Sylvia’s Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
Cousin Phyllis and Other Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
I'm participating in the #Victoriansensationbookclub hosted by @silverliningsandpages and @read.write.janis on Instagram.
Word of the day: collie-shangles, noun.
Books Mentioned:
Sylvia’s Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot (#Victober buddy read with Kate Howe [youtube.com/channel/UCgcjcyByhekqVpU6cKriX5w] and Kate @ The Novel Nomad [youtube.com/channel/UC4TwFXobxwAxS-r5_CwtoLQ])
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield (short story a day)
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens by Alice Walker (essay a day)
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins (the November read for the #Victoriansensationbookclub hosted by @silverliningsandpages and @read.write.janis on Instagram)
Decorating a Room of One's Own by Susan Harlan
Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson (poem a day)
Word of the day: parish pick-axe, noun.
Books Mentioned:
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Queen Victoria by Lucy Worsley
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
Booktubers Mentioned:
Kate Howe (youtube.com/channel/UCgcjcyByhekqVpU6cKriX5w)
Kate @ The Novel Nomad (youtube.com/channel/UC4TwFXobxwAxS-r5_CwtoLQ)
Word of the day: yclept, adjective.
Books Mentioned:
Queen Victoria by Lucy Worsley
The Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
I'm on bookstagram, too! Find me at tonibooktext.
Phrase of the day: got the morbs.
Books Mentioned:
Carrying Over by Carolyn Kizer
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
Queen Victoria by Lucy Worsley
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
The Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
Let's be friends on Bookstagram (instagram.com/tonibooktext/?hl=en) and Goodreads (goodreads.com/booktext)!
Word of the day: borborygmus, noun.
Books Mentioned:
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
The Door by Magda Szabo
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Sea Star by Marguerite Henry
Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Strange Tales by Rudyard Kipling
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Nana by Emile Zola
Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi
The Day is Dark by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
In His Own Words by P.G. Wodehouse
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Red and the Black by Stendahl
Brigitta and Other Tales by Adalbert Stifter
The Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Frost in May by Antonia White
The Runelords by David Farland
London by Edward Rutherfurd
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
Wide as the Waters by Benson Bobrick
The Second Mrs. Gioconda by E.L. Konigsburg
Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons
Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart
Let's be friends!
Word of the day: enthuzimuzzy.
Books mentioned:
Among the Shadows by L.M. Montgomery
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Starlings by Jo Walton
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Kate Howe (youtu.be/eidSDkBuwXE)
Lucythereader (youtu.be/Q-Gr-idpezw)
Books and Things (youtu.be/vD0-QV0kxmE)
Victober Challenges:
1. Read a Victorian book that equates to your favorite modern genre
2. Read a Victorian diary or collection of letters
3. Read a new to you book and/or short story by a favorite Victorian author
4. Read a Victorian book from a previous Victober TBR that you didn't get to, or one you’ve been meaning to read for ages
5. Read a Victorian book while wearing something Victorian/Victorian-esque
6. Group readalong: Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
Word of the day: chuckaboo, noun.
Books Mentioned:
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
Letters between George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0181%3Achapter%3D24)
Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Sylvia’s Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
Cousin Phillis and Other Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
Let’s be friends! I’m on Instagram as tonibooktext, and I’m on Goodreads.
Word of the day: bumbershoot, noun.
Books Mentioned:
Lumberjanes: Out of Time (Vol. 4)
Richard II by William Shakespeare
Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens by Alice Walker
Among the Shadows by L.M. Montgomery
Carrying Over by Carolyn Kizer (ed., trans.)
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
The Landscape of History by John Lewis Gaddis
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Cousin Phillis and Other Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell
Starlings by Jo Walton
Let’s be friends! I’m on Instagram as tonibooktext, and I’m on Goodreads.
Word of the day: halfpace, noun.
Books Mentioned:
The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear
My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
Summer by Edith Wharton
Carrying Over by Carolyn Kizer (ed.)
Among the Shadows by L.M. Montgomery
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
The Landscape of History by John Lewis Gaddis
Richard II by William Shakespeare
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
Lumberjanes: Out of Time
Videos Mentioned:
Shaketube and Stranger Things Readathon TBR youtu.be/u1vXGY7gyYA
Let’s be friends! I’m on Instagram as tonibooktext, and I’m on Goodreads.
Word of the day: balter, verb.
Books Mentioned:
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Snow Blind by Ragnar Jonasson
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett
Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather
The Foundling by Georgette Heyer
Familiar as a Sparrow by Veneta Leatham Nielsen
The New Lifetime Reading Plan by Clifton Fadiman
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Ballistics by Billy Collins
An International Episode and other stories by Henry James
Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Landscape of History by John Lewis Gaddis
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
Get Off the Unicorn by Anne McCaffrey
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
Star Trek: Voyager: Murdered Sun by Christie Golden
Star Trek: Voyager: Marooned by Christie Golden
The White Plague by Frank Herbert
Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
The Muse by Jessie Burton
Suffragette Sally by Gertrude Colmore
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Let’s be friends! I’m on Instagram as tonibooktext, and I’m on Goodreads.
Word of the day: abditory, noun.
Books (and Works) Mentioned:
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Richard II by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
Lumberjanes comics
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett.
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
The Landscape of History by John Lewis Gaddis
Shaketube hosted by
Rainey Day Reads: youtube.com/watch?v=cej2rExrJU4
Old Blue’s Chapter and Verse: youtube.com/watch?v=teeJf0ydwkY
Totally Pretentious: youtube.com/watch?v=-VZwgzMR2mA
Steve Donoghue: youtube.com/watch?v=QbtmVDyopWU
Shaketube Reading Schedule
9/5/2020: Jason - Much Ado About Nothing
Lukas - The Comedy of Errors
Steve - Venus and Adonis
Rainey - Romeo and Juliet
9/12/2020: Jason - Cymbeline
Lukas - Antony and Cleopatra
Steve - Richard II
Rainey - Pericles
9/19/2020: Jason - Macbeth
Lukas - All’s Well that Ends Well
Steve - Love’s Labour’s Lost
Rainey - The Taming of the Shrew
9/26/2020: Hamlet (Group Read)
Scoops Troop Stranger Things Readathon hosted by
Lamour De Books: youtu.be/Scp1FawfFys
Lisamariereads: youtu.be/v5VkmDAPNP4
Scoops Troop challenges
Dustin: read a sci-fi book
Erica: read a middle grade book
Robin: read a book featuring a female/female relationship
Steve: read a popular book
USS Butterscotch: read a sweet contemporary book
Starcourt Mall: read a book you bought/received recently
Let’s be friends! I’m on Instagram as tonibooktext, and I’m on Goodreads.
Word of the day: inglenook, noun.
Books Mentioned:
Kenobi by John Jackson Miller
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The Best of Richard Matheson
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens by Alice Walker
Carrying Over edited by Carolyn Kizer
Among the Shadows by L.M. Montgomery
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
Summer by Edith Wharton
My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
The Landscape of History by John Lewis Gaddis
The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs #15) by Jacqueline Winspear
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
Let’s be friends! I’m on Instagram as tonibooktext, and I’m on Goodreads.
Word of the day: abluvion, noun.
Books Mentioned:
Museum of Distance by Ashley Seitz Kramer
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepulveda
Carrying Over edited by Carolyn Kizer
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker
The Best of Richard Matheson
My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Kenobi by John Jackson Miller
Summer by Edith Wharton
Among the Shadows by L.M. Montgomery
Word of the day: brumous, adjective.
Books Mentioned:
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Let's be friends! I'm also on bookstagram as tonibooktext.
Word of the day: psithurism, noun.
Books Mentioned:
Other Wordly by Lee-Yum Mak
Candide by Voltaire
The Orphan of Salt Winds by Elizabeth Brooks
Museum of Distance by Ashley Seitz-Kramer
The Best of Richard Matheson
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
Carrying Over by Carolyn Kizer (ed.)
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens by Alice Walker
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Let's be friends! I'm also on bookstagram as tonibooktext.
Word of the day: brontide, noun.
Books Mentioned:
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
The Aspern Papers by Henry James
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
I’d Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel
Museum of Distance by Ashley Seitz Kramer
The Best of Richard Matheson
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
The Orphan of Salt Winds by Elizabeth Brooks
To Die But Once by Jacqueline Winspear
Candide by Voltaire
My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Let’s be friends! I’m on Instagram as tonibooktext, and I’m on Goodreads.
Word of the day: scurryfunge, verb.
Books Mentioned:
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Among Others by Jo Walton
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother by Madeleine L'Engle
Under the Harrow by Mark Dunn
Baudolino by Umberto Eco
The Glorious Impossible by Madeleine L'Engle
The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson
A Memory of Violets by Hazel Gaynor
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
The Cafe by the Sea by Jenny Colgan
Wild Fruits by Henry David Thoreau
Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H. White
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon
Summer by Edith Wharton
Evelina by Frances Burney
March by Geraldine Brooks
Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham
The Gentle Axe by R.N. Morris
Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith
Angels & Insects by A.S. Byatt
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
An Irish Country Christmas by Patrick Taylor
The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Forest by Edward Rutherfurd
Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri
The Raphael Affair by Iain Pears
The Sea by John Banville
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
The Athenian Women by Alessandro Barbero
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom
Sovereign by C.J. Sansom
Revelation by C.J. Sansom
The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
The Dark Monk by Oliver Potzsch
The Beggar King by Oliver Potzsch
The Poisoned Pilgrim by Oliver Potzsch
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories by Robin McKinley
Ibid* by Mark Dunn
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
The Last Colony by John Scalzi
No Time to Spare by Ursula K. Le Guin
August by Christa Wolf
The Death of Sheherzad by Intizar Husain
The Cold Centre by Inka Parei
The Shadow-Boxing Woman by Inka Parei
The Teacher by Michael Ben-Naftali
City of Angels by Christa Wolf
Death by Water by Kenzaburo Oe
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Word of the day: galoot, noun.
Books Mentioned:
The Winds of Change and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
In This Grave Hour by Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs #13)
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Green Witch by Alice Hoffman
Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith
Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya, translated by Aline Werth
The Best of Richard Matheson
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
I’d Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel
Museum of Distance by Ashley Seitz Karmer
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
The Haunted House by various authors, edited by Charles Dickens
The Aspern Papers by Henry James
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie
Candide by Voltaire, translated by Henry Morley
My Reading Rush TBR: youtu.be/4YV5zm8eWKQ
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Word of the day: elflock, noun.
Video Mentioned:
My Reading Rush and Book-A-Day TBR (youtube.com/watch?v=4YV5zm8eWKQ)
Books Mentioned:
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund
The Winds of Change and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
Museum of Distance by Ashley Seitz Kramer
In This Grave Hour by Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs #13)
I’d Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Green Witch by Alice Hoffman
Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith
Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya, translated by Aline Werth
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Word of the day: tartle, verb.
Reading Rush Challenges:
1/ Read a book with a cover that matches the color of your birth stone.
2/ Read a book that starts with the word “The”.
3/ Read a book that inspired a movie you’ve already seen.
4/ Read the first book you touch.
5/ Read a book completely outside of your house.
6/ Read a book in a genre that you’ve always wanted to read more of.
7/ Read a book that takes place on a different continent than where you live.
Books Mentioned:
The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie
Candide by Voltaire, translated by Henry Morley
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
The Country of the Pointed Firs
The Aspern Papers by Henry James
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya, translated by Aline Werth
The Haunted House by various authors, edited by Charles Dickens
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Green Witch by Alice Hoffman
Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
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Word of the day: snow-broth, noun.
Books mentioned:
Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund
The Winds of Change and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
Museum of Distance by Ashley Seitz Kramer
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Word of the day: repine, verb.
Further reading:
"The Word Choices that Explain why Jane Austen Endures" by Kathleen A. Flynn and Josh Katz nytimes.com/2017/07/06/upshot/the-word-choices-that-explain-why-jane-austen-endures.html
Vocabulary fun:
Best Words from Jane Austen's Novels: grammarly.com/blog/10-of-the-best-words-from-jane-austens-novels
Jane Austen Vocabulary (with quizzes!): vocabulary.com/articles/blogexcerpts/for-jane-austens-birthday-words-she-first-used
More Words from Jane Austen's Novels: dictionary.com/e/austen-neologisms
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Word/etymology of the day: intention.
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Word of the day: jentacular, adjective.
Books Mentioned:
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton
The Debut by Anita Brookner
Leaving Everything Most Loved (Maisie Dobbs #10) by Jacqueline Winspear
A Dangerous Place (Maisie Dobbs #11) by Jacqueline Winspear
Journey to Munich (#12) by Jacqueline Winspear
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
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Word of the day: hen-hearted, adjective.
Books mentioned:
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund
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Word of the day: gloaming, noun.
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Word of the day: foot-hot, adverb.
Books mentioned:
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (turns out, it's pronounced "Proo")
Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle
The River King by Alice Hoffman
Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepulveda
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman by Louise Plummer
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty
The Knight of Cheerful Countenance by Molly Keane
Love and Mr Lewisham by H.G. Wells
My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
Sister of my Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Pope Joan by Donna Wollfolk Cross
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys
The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
The Fountain of St. James Court by Sena Jeter Naslund
Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
I Never Came to You in White by Judith Farr
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
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Word of the day: blowsy, adjective.
Tag Questions:
1. Why do you read Classics and how often do you read Classics?
2. What is a period/country/culture that you haven't read many classics from and would like too?
3. Which modern book do you think will be a classic in 100 years’ time?
4. What was the last classic you read?
5. What was the first classic you ever read?
6. Favourite classic book cover
7. Classic authors you wish had written more books
8. Least Favourite classic
9. Favourite translated classic
10. Favourite modern classic (published after 1900)
11. Classic literary places you would like to visit
12. First classic you would recommend for a child?
13. Classics you think are mistitled and what would you title them?
14. Your favourite classic you'd like to recommend to everyone
15. Who do you tag?
Books mentioned:
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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