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Mark, please share you view on Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend with us. And welcome to our group!
I'm hoping to read Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney in December, parallel to her 250th birth anniversary.
Kathy wrote: "Here's a link to the Morgan Library and Museum which is having a Jane Austen exhibit, "A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250."https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions..."
What a wonderful discovery, Kathy! Thanks for sharing.
Jul 13, 2025 11:41AM
Luís wrote: "Piyangie wrote: "I know what you mean, Rosemarie. However, I'm not in a mood to read any sort of violence stories at present. What the world presents at this moment is quite enough for me."Do you..."
I agree with Rosemarie. Ibsen's plays have sometimes violent scenes but they are not disturbing in my opinion. Hedda Gabler comes to my mind.
Jul 13, 2025 11:03AM
I know what you mean, Rosemarie. However, I'm not in a mood to read any sort of violence stories at present. What the world presents at this moment is quite enough for me.
Jul 13, 2025 04:30AM
Rosemarie wrote: "I finished War, So Much War. It was not what I expected, with so much violence, and Part 3 is by far the worst! I rated the book two stars but am seriously considering reducing it ..."
Thanks for the update, Rosemarie. I'm not going to read it.
Jul 11, 2025 11:32PM
Oh, this is too bad, Rosemarie. It was the only book I could find of the author, so I bought it. Now I feel a bit uneasy to read it. I can endure confusion but not violence.
Great! I'm hoping to continue Barsetshire series from the 4th Chronicle onward.
We have an exciting announcement to make. Since there seems a general interest in reading Anthony Trollope, we've decided to do a year long Trollope next year, covering his Barsetshire and Palliser series. Each have six novels so we could easily schedule them from January to December. I don't think we've read Trollope as an author before, so this will be a nice opportunity to try some of his famous novels. I'm very excited to do this. Let us know what you think.
Jenna wrote: "Trollope is good. I love his sly sense of humor. I’m up to Dr Thorne in his Barchester Towers series."I've read upto Dr. Thorne as well, Jenna. Dr. Thorne is my favourite Trollope so far.
