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a fine final read of 2019

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

December 31, 2019 by andtheIToldYouSos 4 Comments

I first came across Little Women as a child, and I came across it out of order; we had an old cloth-bound copy of Jo’s Boys on the bookshelf in my childhood home. It was next to Treasure Island, which I had devoured, and being a child I assumed that since books were next to each other they must be related. Ooops! I quickly learned the error of my ways (thanks Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library!) and settled down with an old illustrated tome. I was Jo. Who wasn’t […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: 150th anniversay, American classic, Anne Boyd Rioux, cbr11, coming-of-age, female author, genre-bending, half-cannonball, louisa may alcott, New England Renaissance, patti smith, penguin classics

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR11 Review No:26 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: 150th anniversay, American classic, Anne Boyd Rioux, cbr11, coming-of-age, female author, genre-bending, half-cannonball, louisa may alcott, New England Renaissance, patti smith, penguin classics ·
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Truth Be Told I Don’t Know How to Review Poetry…

Selected Poems by John Keats

February 19, 2019 by Lisa Bee 1 Comment

I’m not exactly sure how to go about this review because poetry is not exactly something I read often (at all, really), nor do I know much about it, so everything here will be coming from a place of very little knowledge. So then why did I choose to read this collection of poems? Because I had an itch to try something not really in my comfort zone, you know, branch out to some new forms and see how it goes. And why John Keats? […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: john keats, penguin classics

Lisa Bee's CBR11 Review No:10 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: john keats, penguin classics ·
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