classic

"Emma"

my take: I am a confirmed sucker for all things Jane Austen…finishing the Pride and Prejudice story? a movie based …

A Moveable Feast

my take: This was great to read after reading The Paris Wife … if we hadn’t read that last year, …

The Great Gatsby

my take: True confessions: this is not the cover of the copy I read … mine (from the 80’s?) has …

Pride and Prejudice

my take: I’ve recently watched both newer versions of P&P … and since I inordinately love the BBC production with …

Villette

my take: The class was billed as “a famous Victorian novel you may never have heard of.” True enough. The …

Cry, the Beloved Country

my take: This is a brilliant book. Written in simple prose, with the cadence of the King James Bible, it’s …

"middlemarch"

my take: reading middlemarch in middle age is an experience worth having. and if you can have jennifer holberg (of …