Simonetta Perkins ★★★✫ 87 pages, Paperback First published January 1, 1925 by the British writer L.P. Hartley. Simonetta Perkins was my book for the Classics Club Spin #30. I knew I would finish it on time, given that it’s only 87 pages. Goodreads readers rate it at 3.3 stars. I do too, I think it’s a…
Yay! I finished my first title of the #ReadingJanakay’s challenge. And it was a solid start. I’m back to reading many of your wonderful reading adventures and reviews, and you all impress me with how many books you read, and read well, and how many books you review with so much prowess. As you may…
Isn’t this image pretty? And the textblock is beautifully colored, characteristic of the Avon books edition, a blood orange red in this case, matching with the title color… … and can you believe that Watership Down has became a classic -following the 50 year rule- this year? Published in 1972, these are its current stats…
I can’t express in words the joy I experienced yesterday when a huge package awaited me at my entrance door. I knew they were the books that Janakay had sent me a few days ago. 15 Beauties, plus a notebook from no less than the Walters Art Museum (top of the pile.), and a Luis…
2020 was the last year in which I blogged regularly. Then, COVID happened. Back to the blog scene while on vacation, I’m also tidying up my site, and realized that I have done the back to the classics challenge from 2015 until 2019, and I even completed 7 books for the 2020 challenge, but I…
What is the spin? It’s easy. At your blog, before next Sunday 12th June, 2022, create a post that lists twenty books of your choice that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list. When my reader started to get populated with several posts featuring this Classics Club Spin, number 30 already, I knew I had…
Who would have told me that, after years of reading classics, one right for me book at a time, I’d be ready to receive Homer’s Iliad. Betting on the classics pool, I hit jackpot with this one. If I lost something by not reading it in verse format, -since my copy in Spanish is in…
Today I’m on a mission. I’m bringing awareness to my last read, a book that I’d call a minor work, but a book with major ramifications. At a time when we readers value the voices of minorities, I present you a Peruvian writer, Clorinda Matto de Turner, born on September 11, 1852, in Cusco, and…
I remember reading this book when I was young, and finding it of profit. It’s zero intimidating. Doesn’t it startle you a bit, to commune in thought and gain wisdom from a Roman Emperor who was born on April 26th, year 121, and died on March 17th, 180? His stoic philosophy came across clearer this…
I had been debating whether I should read a book by Angelou or Morrison, but was scared at the prospect. As much as I want to read everything and all, I’m more and more aware with age that one must choose. My 9th grader’s English teacher has required this book for her class. I then…
I’ve been thinking about the 2020 Back to the Classics categories, and how I wanted to read more in Spanish, and I decided to search for some good Spanish books from the 19th century, a century that many people read a lot from in English, and also in Russian, French, but not so much in…
Yay! Karen so graciously has launched this amazing challenge once more! It’s the 7th year of the challenge, it’ll be my 6th. I said before that I didn’t want to do any challenge this year. Ahem. I meant I don’t want to force myself into any challenge. I don’t want to take it as any…
When I saw Cleo’s Iliad’s read along, and found some good friends willing to participate in it, I decided to join too. I had a moment of doubt, as I read the first pages and felt confused. I remembered that, no matter that I had read this once before, I had to go back to…
I was reading Ruth’s interesting entry with this title, It’s so Classic Book Tag, hosted by Rebellious Writing, and I realized that she tagged me to do it. I’m supposed to tag five others to do this, but I don’t know if you’d like to do it. I’m thinking about Janakay, Chris, Kim, Sherry, Maria…
Lately I’ve been mulling over some long iconic classics of the size of Don Quixote, Moby Dick, One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Tale of Two Cities (or almost any Dickens), Les Miserables, Midnight’s Children, War and Peace (many Russian titles), Fortunata and Jacinta… What makes us want to read them, keep reading them, love…
I need your help, my intrepid readers. On March 28th, 2017, I published my Classics Club List. It was a 50 or more list of classics I committed to read in 5 years or less. Little did I know that in two years and five months, I’d already have read 72 classics, and reviewed over…
Wow, guys. I’m truly excited. I didn’t think this idea was going to have the warm reception it did. There’s quite a lot of you who want to read Don Quixote in company. I know some of you in person, many from Goodreads or your blogs, and there’s a few new people. I want to…
BACK TO THE CLASSICS, 2019 More book posts! Back to the Classics 2018 is in the books. Time to pick fresh titles for the new year. I had fun photographing my beauties. I wanted to take the pictures in my backyard, on the grass and by the stack of wood, but it started to rain,…
Once more, I’ve completed the challenge. I’ve read the 12 books per category, and other classics that could have fit too. Each title has a link, and in this wrap up post, I’m also adding a short comment of what I think about each book. 1. A 19th century classic – any book published between…
What’s all that fuss over Jane Austen? I just didn’t get it. Apparently, I needed some persuasion to find out, -he he. In Madrid, during my high school years, we didn’t have to read Jane Austen. I don’t believe we should force ourselves to read this or that unless it’s a cheerfully and self-imposed dutiful…
Silvia Cachia 