It might look like I'm signing up for challenges left, right, and centre, but in reality, so far I've only picked up one extra, The Aussie Author Challenge. I always do the Australian Women Writers Challenge and Bingo will be entering its second year. I figured I had ample room for one more. This one … Continue reading One more challenge…The Classics Eight
Classic Fiction
Christmas Feature: A Very Murderous Christmas edited by Cecily Gayford
A Very Murderous Christmas... About the Book: We wish you a very murderous Christmas... The Christmas season is one of comfort and joy, sparkling lights and steam rising from cups of mulled wine at frosty carol services. A season of goodwill to all men, as families and friends come together to forget their differences and … Continue reading Christmas Feature: A Very Murderous Christmas edited by Cecily Gayford
Book Review: The Beguiled by Thomas Cullinan
The Beguiled… About the Book: A classic slice of Southern Gothic, shot through with psychological suspense. When an injured Union soldier is found in the Virginia woods as the Civil War rages, he is brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies to recover. For the sheltered girls and their teachers, the … Continue reading Book Review: The Beguiled by Thomas Cullinan
Bingo! The Beguiled by Thomas Cullinan
Bingo Saturday is now getting down to the pointy end of the categories. This week, after much procrastination over which square to tick off, I finally settled on the following: A forgotten classic What exactly constitutes a forgotten classic though? The more I thought about it, the more grey this category became. In essence, I thought a … Continue reading Bingo! The Beguiled by Thomas Cullinan
Book A Day: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Day 11: The English Patient In 1992 this novel was one of two titles that won the Man Booker Prize for fiction and this year it took out the special 50th anniversary Golden Man Booker. Seems I’m not the only one who thinks it's one of the greatest novels ever written. Haunting and harrowing, as … Continue reading Book A Day: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Thoughts on a Bookish Film: Goodbye Christopher Robin
About the Film: After leaving London for the English countryside, writer A.A. Milne starts to spin fanciful yarns about his son's growing collection of stuffed animals. These stories form the basis for "Winnie-the-Pooh" and "The House at Pooh Corner," published respectively in 1926 and 1928. Milne and his family soon become swept up in the … Continue reading Thoughts on a Bookish Film: Goodbye Christopher Robin
My Reading Life: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women is a novel that repeatedly shows up as a favourite for so many readers and writers. In fact, in my own interview series, Behind the Pen, many interviewees have cited Little Women as a childhood favourite. Likewise, in the Australian Women Writers historical fiction Sunday Spotlight interviews, a standard question I ask is … Continue reading My Reading Life: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
My Reading Life: Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
As much as I like an uplifting story that makes you feel all warm inside, my greatest love is literature that moves me. Novels filled with beautiful prose and vivid imagery that lean towards the tragic more than the happy. In other words, novels that make me cry. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas … Continue reading My Reading Life: Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
My Reading Life: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
It's back to the classics again this week for My Reading Life and I'm casting the spotlight onto my favourite English literature novel: Great Expectations (1860-1861) by Charles Dickens. I first came to Great Expectations in Year 12 at high school when I selected it as my classic text for my senior English … Continue reading My Reading Life: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
My Reading Life: Jane Austen
Welcome to My Reading Life, a series where I revisit the authors and novels that have shaped me into the reader I am today. When I was in my 20s, there seemed to be a resurgence of the works of Jane Austen, beginning with that timeless BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (1995), starring … Continue reading My Reading Life: Jane Austen
