GUZMÁN DE ALFARACHE ★★★★✫ Originally published: 1599 Author: Mateo Alemán Genre: Picaresque Fiction Translator: James Mabbe Published in English: 1622 I’m so sad to see there’s no papercopy of this book in English. I’ve found this, though, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/… What’s neat about that, it’s that the translation into English by James Mabbe happened close in time to […]Read Post ›
Curious case of Benjamin Button, F. Scott Fitzgerald ★★★★ Duration: 02:55:46 Includes: Lost decade — Three hours between planes — Bridal party — Babylon revisited. F. Scott Fitzgerald – Author Scott Brick – Narrator Grover Gardner – Narrator Ray Porter – Narrator Jeff Cummings – Narrator Paul Michael Garcia – Narrator This was a short audio, […]Read Post ›
Candide, ou l’Optimisme is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. My rating: ★★★★ out of 5 stars I have no idea why I’ve waited so long to read this book. I listened to it, along with another short tale called Zadig. I will review Zadig […]Read Post ›
This review doubles up for the Back to the Classics, and the first completed title in my Classics Club list. Pavilion of Women, by Pearl S. Buck, 1946 Listened to book by Oasis Audio My rating, ★★★✫ Last year I read a few titles about China and Japan. My favorite was The Makioka Sisters. The Makioka Sisters […]Read Post ›
What you see, it’s a glad scented box of trash bags, a present from my friend Erin. Erin is a young christian woman. She teaches science at a high school. She also taught the first lesson for the year for our monthly ladies’ class. We are learning lessons from the book of Philippians. Her first […]Read Post ›
