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“Plain contented Joe”
It was not because I was faithful, but because Joe was faithful, that I never ran away and went for a soldier or a sailor. It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but...
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Classics Club July 2014 Meme
It turns out that The Classics Club of which I am a part isn’t defunct; apparently the original blog was taken down, but I recently found the new one. Each month there’s a meme–a question to...
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Dismal rot
I know there are those among us in the reading world who don’t like Dickens because they consider him too descriptive, too meandering. I am not one of them. His descriptions and the strength of...
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WWW: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I’m a little embarrassed to say that I’m just now, at the age of forty, reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time in my life. I’m not a complete Twain novice, but I am surprised by...
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All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
I did it! I did it! I finally read All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor! I’ve had it on my Classics Club list for years now, but it took using it for part of our learning time for me to actually...
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