classic books
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52 Pickup
Today, I finished reading Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. When I logged the title into my Goodreads account, I noticed that it was the 52nd book I’ve completed this calendar year. That seemed noteworthy as it puts me well ahead of a pace of one book per week — a volume of reading Continue reading
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Summer Reading: On the Road
Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is a book that I’ve seen referenced all through my adult life, but I never thought much about actually reading it. To be completely honest, I didn’t even realize it was a novel until a few months ago. For the longest time, I was under the impression the book was Continue reading
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Classics Every Day: Mid-Year Update
Back in January, I took it upon myself to start reading some classic fiction, poetry, philosophy, or history every day for an undetermined period of time. I called the project “Classics Every Day.” Now, in this first week of June, I’m happy to report that Classics Every Day is still an ongoing project. I have Continue reading
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Book Report: Moby-Dick
Some books have reputations that precede them. The reputation may be for genius, for popularity, for challenging readers, for polarization, for profundity, or for sheer heft. Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick checks all of those boxes. Moby-Dick used to be a staple of American high school English curricula. (It might still be, but given the trajectory of Continue reading
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Classics Every Day
In a previous post, I talked about classic literature, and how I experience mild pangs of regret over not appreciating the great works that were assigned to me back in high school. Since then, I gathered something of a classics starter collection and spent the month of January working my way through some of it. Continue reading
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