Right now there are about 25 URLs lingering in a document titled "2011 Challenges" in my reading folder. And those are the ones that "really" interest me. The ones that make my reader's heart beat a little faster. And those are not including the two challenges to which I've already
Matthew Quick's Sorta Like a Rock Star Little Brown, 2010 In a reading month that included War and Peace and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, you can imagine that I was craving something a little lighter. Enter Amber Appleton and her loyal dog, Bobby Big Boy, in the pages of this
Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) Penguin, 1978 She's "goodness made interesting". That's what Irving Howe calls Tess, the main character in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Interesting is one way to put it. Not all of his Victorian readers found it so however. His religious skepticism and his
Good Fiction Guide, Ed. Jane Rogers 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2005. Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) Charles Dickens' Bleak House (1852-3) George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-2) Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure (1896) Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (1913) Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925) Aldous Huxley's
The Heroine's Bookshelf Challenge Check it out here! Come on, you know you want to! (If all this is news to you, check out yesterday's response to this sweet little volume.) Or, if you'd rather, the book itself is structured in such a way that it invites a twelve-month exploration. The website
