This Week in the Tour: Georgette Heyer Week Two
Posted by Rebecca Reid in Current Tours, Tour Schedule on March 8, 2010
If you haven’t already, make sure you sign up for the Alexandre Dumas tour. Sign up ends on Friday, March 12.
As for this month’s tour, Georgette Heyer continues her round of the blogosphere this week. Check out these great posts!
March 8, 2010 A Striped Armchair Review: The Unknown Ajax
March 8, 2010 A Book Lover Review: The Convenient Marriage
March 9, 2010 First Impressions: A Tale of Less Pride and Prejudice Review: The Black Sheep
March 10, 2010 Bibliosue Review: The Unfinished Clue and Royal Escape
March 11, 2010 Fleur Fisher Reads Review: No Wind of Blame
March 12, 2010 Reviews by Lola Review: Frederica
March 12, 2010 Reading, Writing, Working, Playing Review: Envious Casca
March 13, 2010 Life Is a Patchwork Quilt Review: My Lord John
March 14, 2010 Jenny’s Books Review: The Grand Sophy
Paris in the Spring: Emile Zola on Tour
Posted by Rebecca Reid in Future Tours, Tour Schedule on March 4, 2010
Beginning Monday, April 5, 2010, Emile Zola will be going on a virtual tour of the blogosphere. Check out these participating blogs where you’ll find reviews of a number his works, as well as general information posts about this classic author.
We have two buttons for this tour. The first is taken from the painting called Paris Street: Rainy Day and painted in 1877 by Zola’s contemporary Gustave Caillebotte (see Wikipedia). The second, possibly more fitting, button is taken from an early cover of Zola’s novel Germinal (also used via Wikipedia public domain).
Tour participants should feel free to use the buttons to promote the Circuit on their blog; please download to your own computer first.
April 5, 2010 The Blog Jar Thérèse Raquin
April 5, 2010 Heidenkind’s Hideaway Nana
April 6, 2010 The Zen Leaf Germinal
April 6, 2010 Rebecca Reads The Masterpiece
April 7, 2010 Shelf Love Thérèse Raquin
April 7, 2010 Badgerish.Net Le Rêve [The Dream]
April 8, 2010 pages turned Germinal
April 8, 2010 Bibliosue Zola and the Dreyfus Affair
April 9, 2010 Bibliolatry Thérèse Raquin
April 10, 2010 Sparks’ Notes The Ladies Paradise
April 11, 2010 Reviews by Lola Nana
April 12, 2010 Pining for the West Germinal
April 13, 2010 Books and Needlepoint Thérèse Raquin
April 14, 2010 Tales from the Reading Room Zola and Naturalism
April 14, 2010 Stiletto Storytime The Ladies’ Paradise [Au Bonheur des Dames] and Nana
April 15, 2010 Musings Thérèse Raquin
April 15, 2010 Good Books & Good Wine Germinal
April 16, 2010 BookNAround Nana
April 17, 2010 Lakeside Musing The Ladies’ Paradise
April 18, 2010 Medieval Bookworm Germinal
April 19, 2010 Wuthering Expectations Thérèse Raquin
April 19, 2010 A Striped Armchair The Ladies’ Paradise
April 20, 2010 Tell Me A Story Nana
April 20, 2010 Books and Chocolate The Belly of Paris
April 21, 2010 Caribousmom Thérèse Raquin
April 22, 2010 Paperback Reader Thérèse Raquin
April 22, 2010 The Reading Life Germinal
April 23, 2010 Evening All Afternoon Germinal (French edition)
April 24, 2010 Moored at Sea Comparison of Zola’s “L’Ouevre” and Huysman’s “A rebours”
April 25, 2010 BookLust The Fortune of the Rougons
Please note: If you are participating in this tour and the information above is incorrect or you need to make a change to your tour day, please let us know by leaving a comment or emailing classicscircuit[at]googlegroups[dot]com. Someone from the Committee will update the schedule.
If you missed sign up and you would like to be added to the schedule at this late point, let us know and we can still fit you in.
Harlem Renaissance Circuit in Retrospect
Posted by Rebecca Reid in Finished Tours, Tour Schedule on March 3, 2010
Make sure you didn’t miss any of February’s Harlem Renaissance tour. Here is where it visited, with permalinks to the specific posts. We hope this list of retrospective posts helps you find your next classic read!
February 1, 2010 Shelf Love: The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
February 2, 2010 Evening All Afternoon: Cane by Jean Toomer
February 3, 2010 Daily Words and Acts: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
February 4, 2010 Paperback_Reader: Quicksand by Nella Larsen
February 4, 2010 BookNAround: The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories by Charles Chesnutt
February 6, 2010 Moored at Sea: Negritude and the Harlem Renaissance
February 6, 2010 Joyfully Retired: His Eye is On the Sparrow by Ethel Waters (autobiography) and the life of Ethel Waters
February 8, 2010 Sparks’ Notes: Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset
February 9, 2010 The Zen Leaf: Jonah’s Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston
February 10, 2010 Books and Chocolate: Passing by Nella Larsen
February 11, 2010 Laura’s Reviews: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
February 11, 2010 Musings: The Ways of White Folks: Stories by Langston Hughes
February 12, 2010 Bibliosue: Home to Harlem by Claude McKay
February 13, 2010 Rebecca Reads: Black No More by George Schuyler
February 14, 2010 eclectic / eccentric Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance by Bruce Nugent and an overview of African-American homosexuality during the Renaissance
February 15, 2010 Nonsuch Book Harlem Renaissance Poetry in Fire!! by Wallace Thurman
February 16, 2010 Notes from the North The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
February 17, 2010 Becky’s Book Reviews Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
February 17, 2010 Notorious Spinks Talks Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance by Bruce Nugent and the movie Brother to Brother
February 19, 2010 Reviews by Lola Passing by Nella Larsen
February 21, 2010 book-a-rama Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
February 22, 2010 Michelle’s Masterful Musings When Washington Was in Vogue by Edward Christopher Williams
February 23, 20101 BrownGirl BookSpeak There Is Confusion by Jessie Fauset
February 24, 2010 Wuthering Expectations The Conjure Woman by Charles Chesnutt
February 25, 2010 Linus’s Blanket Stories by Zora Neale Hurston
February 26, 2010 My Friend Amy Quicksand by Nella Larson
February 26, 2010 things mean a lot Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
February 28, 2010 BookLust The House Behind the Cedars by Charles Chesnutt
Georgette Heyer Visits the Circuit: Week One
Posted by Rebecca Reid in Current Tours, Tour Schedule on March 1, 2010
Not only does sign up begin today for the Dumas Classics Circuit, but it also is day one of the Georgette Heyer tour! Check out these reviews throughout the week and find your next read!
March 1, 2010 One Librarian’s Book Reviews Review: Frederica
March 1, 2010 Austenprose Review: Georgette Heyer’s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester
March 2, 2010 Enchanted by Josephine Review: Beauvallet
March 3, 2010 Books and Chocolate Review: Behold, Here’s Poison
March 3, 2010 Michelle’s Masterful Musings Review: Devil’s Cub
March 4, 2010 Sparks’ Notes Review: Friday’s Girl
March 5, 2010 Tales from the Reading Room Review: The Private World of Georgette Heyer by Jane Aiken Hodge
March 6, 2010 BookNAround Review: The Grand Sophy
March 7, 2010 Windy Ridge Books Review: Why Shoot a Butler?
Paris in the Springtime part deux: Alexandre Dumas Circuit Sign Up
Posted by Kay in Tour Schedule on March 1, 2010
Welcome to the sign up for the Alexandre Dumas tour, part two of the Paris in the Springtime circuit 
The tour will begin on April 19, overlapping with the last weeks of the Zola tour, and will last for about three weeks, depending on the number of participants. If you have signed up for Zola and also wanted to sign up for Dumas, note that we will be sending tour day assignment emails in the next few days; you may want to wait until you know when you are assigned for that tour.
You can sign-up for the tour until March 12, and we would love to have you part of it!
When you indicate that you want to participate, please keep in mind that we will assign you a date during the tour on which you should post. If you are unable to meet your assigned date, let us know and we can reassign you: otherwise, we’ll take you off the schedule. Please let us know when you sign up your preferred and/or unavailable days during the month.
Information compiled by Rebecca of Rebecca Reads, Teresa of Shelf Love, Nicole of Linus’s Blanket, Chris of book-a-rama and Kay of Kay’s Bookshelf.
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This Week in the Circuit: Harlem Renaissance Week Four
Posted by Rebecca Reid in Current Tours, Tour Schedule on February 22, 2010
Our celebration of the Harlem Renaissance comes to an end this week. We hope you have enjoyed it and found your next read! Make sure you check out these last posts.
February 22, 2010 Michelle’s Masterful Musings When Washington Was in Vogue by Edward Christopher Williams
February 23, 20101 BrownGirl BookSpeak There Is Confusion by Jessie Fauset
February 24, 2010 Wuthering Expectations The Conjure Woman by Charles Chesnutt
February 25, 2010 Linus’s Blanket Stories by Zora Neale Hurston
February 26, 2010 My Friend Amy Quicksand by Nella Larson
February 26, 2010 things mean a lot Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
February 27, 2010 Bookgazing Gentleman Jigger by Bruce Nugent
February 28, 2010 BookLust The House Behind the Cedars by Charles Chesnutt
Zola (April) Classics Circuit Sign Up
Posted by Rebecca Reid in Future Tours, Tour Schedule on February 18, 2010
The Classics Circuit is pleased to announce that your vote for Paris in the Spring authors was a tie! Since both Emile Zola and Alexandre Dumas are well worth reading and discussing, both French authors will tour the Circuit this Spring. Although you can sign up to read and then invite both authors to your site, don’t feel obligated to do so: the two tours will be slightly overlapping, so keep your own reading schedule and abilities in mind.
Today begins sign up for the Emile Zola tour, which will begin April 5 and run until April 23 or April 30, depending on the number of interested tour participants. Once sign up closes for this tour, we will open sign up for the Alexandre Dumas tour. The tours will be overlapping by a week or so (again, depending on the number of tour participants).
When you indicate that you want to participate, please keep in mind that we will assign you a date during the tour on which you should post. If you are unable to meet your assigned date, let us know and we can reassign you: otherwise, we’ll take you off the schedule. Please let us know when you sign up your preferred and/or unavailable days during the month.
Zola Circuit sign up will be open until the evening of Sunday, February 28. Sign up is now closed. If you would still like to join the tour, send an email to the tour leader at classicscircuit@googlegroups.com as soon as possible.
Information compiled by Rebecca of Rebecca Reads, Teresa of Shelf Love, Nicole of Linus’s Blanket, and Chris of book-a-rama.
This Week in the Tour: Harlem Renaissance Week Three
Posted by Rebecca Reid in Current Tours, Tour Schedule on February 15, 2010
The Harlem Renaissance tour continues this week by visiting the following sites.
February 15, 2010 Nonsuch Book Harlem Renaissance poetry from Fire!
February 16, 2010 Notes from the North The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
February 17, 2010 Becky’s Book Reviews Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
February 17, 2010 Notorious Spinks Talks Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance by Bruce Nugent and the movie Brother to Brother
February 18, 2010 The Things We Read Passing by Nella Larsen
February 19, 2010 Reviews by Lola Passing by Nella Larsen
February 20, 2010 Gimme More Books! The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher
February 21, 2010 book-a-rama Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
I Love Paris in the Spring Time: Vote for the April Circuit
Posted by Rebecca Reid in Voting on February 8, 2010
We love Paris in the springtime, and in April we will be traveling to Paris to visit one of these four classic nineteenth century French authors.
- Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) is one of the most widely read French novelists today. His historical novels of high adventure were often serialized, capturing the attention of the French public then and entertaining generations still.
- Victor Hugo (1802-1885) contributed largely to the romantic movement in France, through his essays, stories, novels, poetry, and plays. His works focus on the social and political issues of his time. Although most well known in France for his poetry, his novels (such as Les Miserables) are more well known outside of the country.
- George Sand (1804-1876) was the pen name for Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, who is called the first female novelist of France. Although she lived an unorthodox life for nineteenth century France, Sand did not describe herself as a feminist. Her fiction focuses on the restrictions and challenges that women face because of social class and gender.
- Emile Zola (1840-1902) became an important contributor to the literary school of naturalism. He wrote numerous short stories, four plays, and more than a dozen books. His books focus on how environment and heredity inevitably affect human character.
Which author would you like to visit the Circuit in April?
POLL CLOSED
The Harlem Renaissance on Tour: Week Two
Posted by Rebecca Reid in Current Tours, Tour Schedule on February 8, 2010
See where the Harlem Renaissance visits this week!
February 8, 2010 Sparks’ Notes Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset
February 9, 2010 The Zen Leaf Jonah’s Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston
February 10, 2010 Books and Chocolate Passing by Nella Larsen
February 11, 2010 Laura’s Reviews Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
February 11, 2010 Musings The Ways of White Folks: Stories by Langston Hughes
February 12, 2010 Bibliosue Home to Harlem by Claude McKay
February 13, 2010 Rebecca Reads Black No More by George Schuyler
February 14, 2010 eclectic / eccentric Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance by Bruce Nugent and an overview of African-American homosexuality during the Renaissance
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