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Red, White, and Drunk All Over (thoughts)
Posted by: Eva on: November 24, 2009
I am not a wine girl, with the exceptions of champagne, riesling, and the ’semi-sweet’ red wine my Russian host family always got me (I can’t find a US equivalent anywhere). I used to really enjoy beer, from microbreweries or overseas, but now that I have a gluten allergy, when I’m out and about [...]
The Law and the Lady (thoughts)
Posted by: Eva on: November 3, 2009
I am so pleased to be today’s stop for the Classics Circuit’s inaugural author tour: Wilkie Collins. The brainchild of Rebecca the Classics Circuit aims to give classic authors the same five-star publicity treatment recently published authors receive, by arranging blog tours for them. Kim kicked things off yesterday with an informative look [...]
Sunday Salon: the Wow-October’s-Over! Post
Posted by: Eva on: November 1, 2009
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Can you believe today is November 1st? I missed last week’s Sunday Salon (although I did a Friday salon, lol) in the post-Dewey’s Read-a-Thon madness, so I have quite a few books to talk about. I’ve decided to save the graphic books I’ve been reading for another post, but that leaves us with 16. [...]
Reservation Blues (thoughts)
Posted by: Eva on: October 29, 2009
I had heard of Sherman Alexie around the blogosphere for his YA novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. But while I enjoy YA, it’s not my favourite, can’t-miss genre, so I wasn’t completely sold. Then, in late August, I read his short story “War Dances” and loved it. I [...]
Kristin Lavransdatter (thoughts)
Posted by: Eva on: October 27, 2009
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset was my third (and final) 1,000+ read this year. Due to some cruel twist of fate, both it and A Suitable Boy became available at the same time (and both had a list of readers waiting, so I knew I couldn’t renew either), so I ended up reading all [...]
‘Friday Salon’: the Early Post
Posted by: Eva on: October 23, 2009
I decided that since tomorrow is Dewey’s Read-a-Thon, there’s no way I’d be up for doing a Sunday Salon post this week. But I don’t want the books I’ve read since the last one to go by the wayside. So I spent the morning finishing up the books I was reading, so I’d [...]
In Loving Memory
