Updates and Bookish Chit-Chat
Hello readers! I wanted to share a couple of updates and talk books a bit!
First of all, there’s a Goodreads softcover giveaway of my upcoming second-in-series mystery, Belinda Blake and the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing. You can find that here: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
Secondly, if you’re active on NetGalley, you can now request an early reader e-copy of Belinda Blake and the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing. Here’s the link for that: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/boo...
Those of you who’ve read my Vikings of the New World Saga books will enjoy that there are numerous references to Viking names in Belinda Blake #2, but I won’t tell you HOW those were integrated.
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Aug 17, 2019 10:29AM
So far in 2019, I believe I'd have to say that my favorite read has been Emma by Jane Austen. (I've made it a project this year to read all of the four Austen novels I'd never read before.) It got five stars from me when I finished it, and it's grown in my estimation as I've thought about it since.
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Emma was one of my faves of her books. I haven't read Austen for a while! I need to set aside a year to just read the classics I haven't read yet (I think I've read most of Austen's). Which classics are your favorites, Werner?
It's hard for me to pick favorites; but if I had to pick five favorite classics, I'd say my list would be:1. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
5. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
How about you, Heather --what are your favorite classics?
That's a great list--I need to read The Rise of Silas Lapham. I've tried starting A Tale of Two Cities and I KNOW it's amazing, but for some reason I can't get into it! :( Anyway, my faves are The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, Vanity Fair by Thackeray, and Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, although I always love rereading The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald. I love character-driven novels, I think, and Hardy is so GOOD at that, though so many of his are tragic. Thanks for asking!
Yes, I appreciate character-driven fiction, too! Far from the Madding Crowd is my favorite Hardy novel (and I've read all of his major ones); and I've read Vanity Fair twice. Both The Mill on the Floss and The Great Gatsby are on my to-read shelf (along with a LOT of other classics!), so I've still got plenty of good reading to look forward to. :-)
