Archive for April, 2011

Dueling Authors: Austen Versus Dickens

Sign up is now open for the Dueling Authors Tour: Austen Versus Dickens.

Come find a novel to read and sign up!

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Psst….Coming Soon

Nicole from Linus Blanket is busy working on the introduction post to our next Classic Circuit Tour, and it’s going to be a fun tour. Sign up will be soon.

Two of our favorite English authors will be dueling in this tour. Which authors come to mind when you think of greatest English writers?

None other than England’s own….

Jane Austen

and

Charles Dickens

It’ will be an Austen versus Dickens show down. The tour should be in early to mid May. More information coming soon!

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America's Lost Generation Tour: In Retrospect

Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein, to name a few, had a lot of fun touring the blogosphere for the last two weeks! See where the authors of the Lost Generation visited in retrospect. Did you miss any of it?

Monday, March 21    Sasha & The Silverfish: This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Monday, March 21    2606 Books and Counting: The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
Monday, March 21    A Literary Odyssey: The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway

Tuesday, March 22    Bibliosue: The Sun Also Rises and A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Tuesday, March 22    Notes from the North: “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot
Tuesday, March 22    Stiletto Storytime: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Wednesday, March 23    Mustard Seed Book Reviews: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Wednesday, March 23    Dolce Bellezza: “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thursday, March 24    The Zen Leaf: A Moveable Feast by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thursday, March 24    The Reading Life: “Hands” from Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwoood Anderson

Friday, March 25    pages turned: “Spotted Horses” by William Faulkner
Friday, March 25    C’est la vie!: Short stories by Ernest Hemingway

Saturday, March 26     The Story Girl: The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Saturday, March 26      Time’s Flow Stemmed: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Sunday, March 27    Booksploring: Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald
Sunday, March 27    Hungry Like the Woolf: Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos

Monday, March 28    Bread Crumb Reads: “Eeldrop and Appleplex” by T.S. Eliot
Monday, March 28     bibliographing: Lucy Church Amiably by Gertrude Stein

Tuesday, March 29    Fitzgerald Musings: Winter Dreams, May Day, and The Diamond as Big as a Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tuesday, March 29    Wordy Evidence of the Fact: Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

Wednesday, March 30    Just Add Books: To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
Wednesday, March 30    Shelf Love: The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
Wednesday, March 30    An Armchair by the Sea: Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thursday, March 31    things mean a lot: Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thursday, March 31    Evening All Afternoon: Paris France by Gertrude Stein
Thursday, March 31    Rebecca Reads: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Friday, April 1        Fat Books & Thin Women: Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
Friday, April 1        A Book Lover: “Old Possums Book of Practical Cats” by T. S. Eliot
Friday, April 1        Nisaba Be Praised: Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friday, April 1        Capricious Reader: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Saturday, April 2    Life is a Patchwork Quilt: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Sunday, April 3    Breathing Space: The Beautiful and the Damned  by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sunday, April 3    Fig and Thistle: Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation

Monday, April 4    Lifetime Reading Plan: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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