Archive for June, 2011
Introduction and Sign Up: A Celebration of Steinbeck
Posted by admin in Intro and Sign Up, Tours on June 26, 2011
It’s time for another tour! This time, we’re celebrating the writings of John Steinbeck.
John Steinbeck lived from 1902 to 1968, writing more than two dozen books, including fiction, nonfiction, and stories. Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath, and in 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, an award given to an author with the best body of work.
I’d like to thank Karen from Books and Chocolate for her help in compiling this information.
The button is a government image of an Okie family packing up their car to travel out of the dust bowl during the Great Depression. Since this is the subject Steinbeck’s Pultizer Prize-winning novel (The Grapes of Wrath), it seemed a significant image to use to promote our own tour around the blogosphere. Feel free to download the button for your own use.
Although the tour dates are not determined yet, the tour will probably run beginning August 15 and going until about August 26, depending on how many people have signed up. We will email an assigned day. You are to post on your blog on your assigned day.
Sign up is now closed.
If you are coming to this late and would really like to participate, send an email to rebecca[at]rebeccareid[dot]com with your blog url, the book you’d like to write about, and your available days. Please contact me before the tour begins.
Coming Soon….John Steinbeck
Posted by admin in Coming Soon on June 10, 2011
John Steinbeck
Coming soon is a tour celebrating the writings of John Steinbeck! Sign up will be in the coming week or two, and the tour will run the last weeks of July or early August.
If you’d like to help pull together the introductory document about John Steinbeck, send me an email at rebecca[at]rebeccareid[dot]com. Help is needed mostly this coming week.
Jane Austen vs Charles Dickens Round Up!
Posted by admin in Tour in Retrospect, Tours on June 6, 2011
Happy June everyone!
Blog titles below link to bloggers’ post for the Jane Austen vs Charles Dickens Circuit. I hope you enjoy looking over all the posts, and a big thanks to all who participated! This was a very close call and I ‘m not sure how close we are to declaring a winner. We have to put it up for a vote! So please take the time to think about your experiences with these authors and watch out for our tie breaking poll at the end of the week. And of course stay tuned for the next Classics Circuit tour.
Sunday, May 8
Sasha & The Silverfish – Persuasion by Jane Austen
First Impressions – Henry and Eliza by Jane Austen
Six Great Books – Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Monday, May 9
Adventures of An Intrepid Reader – Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Story Girl – A Tale of Two Cities by Charles and Dickens
The Blue Bookcase – Persuasion by Jane Austen
Tuesday, May 10
Reviews by Lola – Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Wednesday, May 11
Armchair by the Sea – Emma by Jane Austen
Bloomer – The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
Fleur Fisher – The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Thursday, May 12
The Reading Life – Sketches by Boz by Charles and Dickens
Your Move, Dickens – Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Peetswea – A Tale of Two Cities by Charles and Dickens
Friday, May 13
Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog – Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen & The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
fictional 100 – Ghosts of Scrooges Past: Revisiting ”A Christmas Carol”
Saturday, May 14
Lifetime Reading Plan – Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Stiletto Storytime – A Tale of Two Orphans a comparison of the main characters of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens and Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
She Reads Novels – Persuasion by Jane Austen & The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles and Dickens
Sunday, May 15
A Fair Substitute For Heaven – Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Ardent Reader – Emma by Jane Austen
Monday, May 16
The Time of Your Life – A Tale of Two Cities by Charles and Dickens
Fairy Revel – Emma by Jane Austen
seagreen reader – Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Bibliophiliac – Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Tuesday, May 17
A Literary Odyssey – Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Becky’s Book Reviews – Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen & The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Wednesday, May 18
Chrisbookarama – Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Notes from the North – Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Bread Crumb Reads – Persuasion by Jane Austen & A Tale of Two Cities by Charles and Dickens
Thursday, May 19
Reading Writing Working, Playing – Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Reading Thru The Night – Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Dolce Belleza – Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Friday, May 20
Rebecca Reads – The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Things Mean A Lot – Hard Times by Charles Dickens
JA Film Club – Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen & Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Lizzy’s Literary Life – The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Charles Dickesn
Saturday, May 21
Books and Chocolate – Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens
A Room of One’s Own – Persuasion by Jane Austen & Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Reading Rambo – The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
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