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Category Archives: Summer Reading List
I’m moving
Hello readers and friends– My site is moving, but will be the same, with a new address. Look for me at www.booksandbuttons.com. You’ll see my usual page with a row of books at the top. And there is a new … Continue reading
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Book Review: Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
About a year ago I reviewed “The Magnificent Ambersons” by this same author, Booth Tarkington. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1919. (Just type magnificent ambersons in my search box up there on the right.) This book, Alice Adams, won … Continue reading
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Book Review: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
(Click on photo to enlarge.) Read the first lines and see how a nice snobby tone is established right on page one. Newland Archer is from “good family” and is about to become engaged to May Welland, also of “good … Continue reading
Summer Reading List 2013–updated Aug 25th–and going to St. Louis
Hot off the press! Here is this summer’s proposed reading list. I don’t have a real giant this year like Three Musketeers (last year). It’s kind of a mixed list—and looking forward to all of them! The two with stars … Continue reading
A List of Books for your Young Teenager
I was asked recently to suggest some books for summer reading for one of my teen-aged granddaughters. You would think that this might be an easy list to find on the internet. But I didn’t find any I liked. Although … Continue reading
Summer Reading List–update in August
Hooray! I finished The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas! That was my main heavy reading book for this summer—now I can coast. I won’t say it was the best book I’ve ever read—but it was fun and had a bit … Continue reading
Summer Reading List 2012
OK, middle of June—certainly time to plan the summer reading list—and get started! What’s on your list? I knew a long time ago that I wanted to read The Three Musketeers this summer. And a couple of months ago my … Continue reading
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more about summer reading list
Thank you, Catherine, for your comment. I’ll be interested to read your review of The Other Side of the Bridge. Last night I decided to get busy on my “summer reading list” since the days of August are fast a-flying … Continue reading
Summer Reading List 2011
If there’s an X, I have read it Mary Shelley Frankenstein Brendan Gill When the Money Stopped HI,CFI (Have it, can’t find it) Charlotte Bronté X Jane Eyre John Cheever X Stories Dorothy Sayers X Gaudy Night George Eliot Daniel Deronda Dai Sijie Balzac … Continue reading