(I read this book as part of the Back to the Classics Challenge. Click on the link or image to join in the fun!) Every eligible bachelor in Padua is head over heels for Bianca, a kind and beautiful young woman. She is the youngest sibling, and her father has decided that Bianca cannot marry…
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Review: Jane Eyre
(I read this book as part of the Back to the Classics Challenge. Click on the link or image to join in the fun!) Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel Jane Eyre centers around a young woman of the same name who, orphaned at an early age and sent to live at a boarding school, finds both…
Review: Their Eyes Were Watching God
(I read this book as part of the Back to the Classics Challenge. Click on the image to see what else I’ve read and join the fun!) Despite a life of poverty and two unhappy marriages, Janie Crawford is a cheerful soul. Fiercely independent and free of the shackles of fear, bitterness, and foolish romantic…
Review: Agnes Grey
(I read this book as part of the Back to the Classics Challenge. Click on the link or image to join in the fun!) When her family’s financial situation becomes impossible, the young Agnes Grey hires herself out as a governess. The families for whom she works and the children she teaches are uniformly terrible,…
2012 Reading Challenge: Pay It Sideways
“So for the past few days I hopped, greedily perusing Top Ten list after Top Ten list, gathering book after stellar book from bloggers’ 2011 favorites and adding them to my ever mounting virtual TBR pile for 2012. Then a lightning bolt struck: What a perfect 2012 challenge to knit our book blogger community closer…