Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)

message 1: by Anisha Inkspill (last edited Feb 06, 2025 12:31AM) (new)

Jan 31, 2025 12:44AM

Anisha Inkspill (anishainkspill) | 505 comments

When I joined Goodreads, I read very little, reading and books was not a part of me. And it’s been amazing.

For me this is like a new phase in my reading journey. If you asked me a few years ago if I was a book reader, I would ave said no, you ask me now and I will say yes, definitely.

In 2025 my target is 62 books.

I’m reading a mix of fiction and nonfiction from Classic Reads to contemporary.

I tend to pick picks that challenge me. This year my main focus is Jane Austen, Bloomsbury Group, continuing with mythology, and starting / trying to read some books about science. And I’m sure there will be a lot of other books that I will distracted by on the way.

2025 reads covered in
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message 2 - 3 ---- fiction
message 4 - 5 ---- nonfiction

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message 2: by Anisha Inkspill (last edited Sep 18, 2025 01:22AM) (new)

Jan 31, 2025 06:28AM

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message 3: by Anisha Inkspill (last edited Sep 18, 2025 01:24AM) (new)

Jan 31, 2025 06:28AM

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message 4: by Anisha Inkspill (last edited Sep 18, 2025 01:25AM) (new)

Jan 31, 2025 06:29AM

2025 reads --- nonfiction part 1
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The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits (Jennifer Higgie) 📖 ✅ 4* my review read in Mar 2025
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (Alice Walker)

The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization (Stephen Bourke) --- One of the books I've lined up to get a little more familiar with Mesopotamia.

The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance (Anthony Gottlieb) --- I enjoyed this last time and reading agin.
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Stephen Hawking) 📖 ✅ 4* my review read in Feb 2025
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Stephen Hawking) 📖 ✅ 4* my review read in Mar 2025

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message 2 - 3 ---- fiction
message 4 - 5 ---- nonfiction

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message 5: by Anisha Inkspill (last edited Apr 05, 2025 01:34AM) (new)

Jan 31, 2025 06:29AM

2025 reads --- nonfiction part 2
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Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist (Frances Spalding) --- One of the two books lines up.
The Art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, and Duncan Grant (Richard Shone) --- Looks interesting.
Roger Fry (Virginia Woolf) --- Second read, a nonfiction biography by Virginia Woolf of her friend, artist and art critic, Roger Fry.

Jane Austen: A Life (Claire Tomalin) --- I found this helpful last time, and it will be good to read again.
A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollections (James Edward Austen-Leigh) --- I've been wanting to read this for sometime.
The History of England by a partial, prejudiced & ignorant historian (Jane Austen) 📖 ✅ 3.5* my review read in Mar 2025
Jane Austen at Home (Lucy Worsley) 📖 ✅ 4* my review read in Jan 2025

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message 4 - 5 ---- nonfiction

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message 6: by Anisha Inkspill (last edited Feb 06, 2025 01:21AM) (new)

Jan 31, 2025 06:29AM

Jan was filled with many surprising reads, and this was one of them

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message 7: by Anisha Inkspill (last edited Feb 06, 2025 01:21AM) (new)

Jan 31, 2025 06:30AM

and this another

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message 8: by Kathleen (new)

Jan 31, 2025 08:33AM

What you say about becoming a reader is absolutely heartwarming. And I love your choices, and your art focus. I'm also starting Invisible Man soon, and think I have The Post-Office Girl around somewhere.

I'll also be reading Jane Austen and about Jane Austen, and just started one that has the same title as the Tomalin book, but is by Carol Shields: Jane Austen: A Life and I think it will be really good too.

Looking forward to your thoughts on all of these!

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message 9: by Sara, New School Classics (new)

Jan 31, 2025 03:30PM

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How lovely that you have become a reader! I would have had a completely different life if I had not had books. Happy reading.

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message 10: by Anisha Inkspill (new)

Feb 01, 2025 05:48AM

Kathleen wrote: "What you say about becoming a reader is absolutely heartwarming. And I love your choices, and your art focus. I'm also starting Invisible Man soon, and think I have [book:The Post-Offi..."

thank you Kathleen, and it's fantastic, I'm really looking forward to both these novels.

And Carol Shields, I hadn't realised she had written a bio on Austen, I had this inkling Austen's novels were more than romance and slowly starting to see how.

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message 11: by Anisha Inkspill (new)

Feb 01, 2025 05:50AM

Sara wrote: "How lovely that you have become a reader! I would have had a completely different life if I had not had books. Happy reading."

thank you Sara, it's been a journey and I still can't quite believe it, my regret is I didn't have the confidence to read sooner but I'm trying to make up for that now.

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message 12: by Anisha Inkspill (last edited Feb 16, 2025 01:42AM) (new)

Feb 05, 2025 12:19AM

Franz Kafka

The first work I read by Kafka was Metamorphosis with this group this was when I first joined Goodreads and books were a lot tougher than these days, but it wasn’t until I read The Hunger Artist last year that I appreciated his work.

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message 13: by Anisha Inkspill (new)

Feb 22, 2025 02:19AM

I've read the first of the six plays from Six Tragedies: Phaedra / Oedipus / Medae / Trojan Women / Hercules Furens / Thyestes (Oxford World's Classics) (Seneca; Emily Wilson), this read is more heartbreak then romantic, and I am not sure if I will ever get used the the violence in these old plays but the poetical touches are just wonderful.

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message 14: by Sara, New School Classics (new)

Feb 22, 2025 06:50AM

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Great accomplishment. Bravo.

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message 15: by Anisha Inkspill (new)

Feb 23, 2025 03:28AM

Sara wrote: "Great accomplishment. Bravo."

Thank you Sara - it's been truly amazing

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message 16: by Anisha Inkspill (new)

Sep 18, 2025 01:33AM

I've read 56 / 62 books but I got distracted so I may not get to some of books I planned to read.

I'm really trying to stick to my planned reads but not easy.

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message 17: by Anisha Inkspill (new)

Oct 10, 2025 02:34AM

one of the books I did plan is The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception: A Companion, 25% read not a very easy read but fascinating and really enjoying it

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message 18: by Anisha Inkspill (new)

20 hours, 49 min ago

Greek Epic Cycle, crumbs super tough read

and hoping to finish this year with

Three Kingdoms.
African Myth & one left from last year, Middle East. and maybe P&P, but not sure

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