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Courting the Classics: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
By Autumn and Rachel For the last few months, my daughter, Rachel, and I have been enjoying reading the same books/plays, and then comparing notes. She likes the validation of having her mom read the...
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Courting the Classics: May Welcome
By Autumn HAPPY REAL SPRING… …at least in my part of the country. Mother’s Day is coming up, and of course my mind turned to books *smile*. This month, our reviewers examine mother/child relationships,...
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Courting the Classics: A Room With A View by E.M. Forster
By Autumn Edwardian England was as difficult an era as most, if one was a woman. Though no longer quite the chattel they were a century earlier, a woman’s familial duty and saving was to make a “good”...
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Courting the Classics: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
By Amanda For a book of around 200 pages, Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair covers a wide range of issues: love, jealousy, fidelity, religion, spirituality – you get the picture. Given the way in...
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Courting the Classics: Silas Marner by George Eliot
By Ann B. “I think nobody could be happier than we are,” is the last line in a book where unhappiness abounds. Silas Marner, by George Eliot, follows the life of a man who loses everything a couple...
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Courting the Classics: September Welcome
By Autumn Happy September! The kids are back to school, the weather is cooling off (for you, too, I hope), and it’s a great time to settle down with a good book. This month, we’ll be taking a look a...
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Courting the Classics: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Review By Duskwatcher When I heard that the Fictionista Workshop people were looking for reviewers to share the classics, I was intrigued, but it wasn’t until they consented to reviews of science...
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by Autumn We may be a couple of weeks from brisk weather, but I’m already dreaming of soup. Homemade bread. Baked apples. Jackets in the evening around the firepit. Death and wholesale destruction....
View ArticleCourting the Classics: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Reviewed by Autumn Markus The setting is North America, Gilead, to be exact, in the not so distant future. The world has been ravaged by pollution, fertility is at near zero, and war is an everyday...
View ArticleCourting the Classics: Fahrenheit 451
Reviewed by Erica R Hopper “It was a pleasure to burn.” From the very first sentence Fahrenheit 451 gives promise of writing that is both skilled and beautiful and a gateway to a dystopian place with...
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