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A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
I recently finished reading A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) by Thomas Hardy. It was his third published book and one of many “Wessex” novels he wrote, Wessex being his imagined region of England. I have heard Hardy’s writing referred to as an acquired taste…I’m not sure if this is true, but I find his…
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Darkness and Light by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya R. Carter (Dragonlance Preludes #1)
I just finished reading Darkness and Light by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya R. Carter. It is a Dragonlance fantasy novel and the first in the Preludes series. These books are set in the five years before the first of the Dragonlance Chronicles, Dragons of Autumn Twilight. I loved the Chronicles as a kid and…
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Monarch caterpillar
On a walk around midday today, we came across a couple of monarch caterpillars eating milkweed.
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White Fang by Jack London
I just finished reading White Fang (1906), a novel by Jack London. The story of White Fang’s life begins in the northern territories of Canada during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. Born to Old One Eye, a wolf, and Kiche, a wolf-dog, White Fang’s world slowly expands from the cave of his birth to…
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Gamebooks!
Here is a gallery of book covers from some gamebooks I really love! Thanks to Demian’s Gamebook website for the scans (I am not at home and unable to scan or photograph my own copies right now).
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Prisoners of Pax Tharkas, Super Endless Quest #1 by Morris Simon and illustrated by Mark Nelson
I finished reading Prisoners of Pax Tharkas (1985), the first Super Endless Quest gamebook by TSR , written by Morris Simon and illustrated by Mark Nelson. This gamebook takes place in Krynn, the world of the Dragonlance saga. It is well-written, with an even, steady pace. The events take place contemporaneously with the early part…
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Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
I finished reading Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends, translated and with a biographical sketch by Constance Garnett. This is just what it sounds like—a large collection of letters Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) wrote to family and various friends. He wrote to his mother, brothers, and sister, his friend and editor (Suvorin), other writers…
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Pines by Blake Crouch
I just finished reading Pines by Blake Crouch, a novel published in 2012. It’s a fast-paced, page-turning thriller with a lot of action and suspense shrouded in strange mystery. The story is told in fast, clipped, sometimes fragmentary language. As the enigma deepens, the reader is tantalized with little hints of what is really going…
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Dreamers (Sværmere) by Knut Hamsun
I just finished reading Dreamers (Sværmere; 1904) by Knut Hamsun, translated by W. W. Worster. In this short work, Hamsun tells the story of a handful of characters living in a small fishing village. With spare description he constructs a bright, crisp world that, despite the novel’s brevity, feels somehow real. I enjoyed the prose…