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Paris in the Spring: Alexandre Dumas on Tour

Beginning Monday, April 19, 2010, Alexandre Dumas 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.

Feel free to use the button (or perhaps make your own if you’re so inclined). Please download it to your computer before using it.

April 19, 2010 Reading Through Life The Three Musketeers or a post about the relevance of Dumas to adolescent readers

April 20, 2010 Rebecca Reads The Three Musketeers

April 21, 2010 book-a-rama The Wolf Leader

April 21, 2010 First Impressions: A Tale of Less Pride and Prejudice The Companions of Jehu

April 22, 2010 Bibliolatry The Black Tulip

April 22, 2010 Semicolon La Reine Margot

April 23, 2010 A Literary Odyssey The Three Musketeers

April 24, 2010 Stiletto Storytime The Queen’s Necklace and/or La Reine Margot

April 25, 2010 Tales of a Capricious Reader The Three Musketeers or The Count of Monte Cristo

April 26, 2010 Badgerish.Net The Companions of Jehu

April 26, 2010 Sparks’ Notes The Three Musketeers

April 27, 2010 One Librarian’sBook Reviews The Man in the Iron Mask

April 27, 2010 In Spring it is the Dawn The Count of Monte Cristo

April 28, 2010 Good Books & Good Wine The Black Tulip

April 28, 2010 Kay’s Bookshelf La Reine Margot

April 29, 2010 Wuthering Expectations “A Gossip on a Novel of Dumas’s” by Robert Louis Stevenson

April 29, 2010 Carol’s Notebook The Three Musketeers

April 30, 2010 A Striped Armchair undecided Dumas

May 1, 2010 Maxine Reads The Count of Monte Cristo

May 2, 2010 Literary Lolita Camille

May 3, 2010 FLY HIGH! The Black Tulip

May 4, 2010 Shelf Love The Count of Monte Cristo

May 4, 2010 Fleur Fisher Reads 1001 Ghosts

May 5, 2010 The Reading Life Georges

May 5, 2010 Daily Words and Acts The Count of Monte Cristo

May 6, 2010 A Book Lover The Three Musketeers

May 7, 2010 Laura’s Reviews The Count of Monte Cristo

May 7, 2010 The Zen Leaf The Black Tulip

May 8, 2010 The Blog Jar The Count of Monte Cristo

May 9, 2010 It’s All About Books Twenty Years After

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, we still have a few free slots and we can still fit you in.

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This Week in the Tour: Georgette Heyer Week Three

Georgette Heyer continues her tour this week with stops at these great blogs.

March 15, 2010 Booklust Review: Penhallow
March 16, 2010 Carol’s Notebook Review: Cotillion
March 16, 2010 Musings Review: These Old Shades
March 17, 2010 Reading Adventures Review: Devil’s Cub
March 18, 2010 Blog Jar Review: Royal Escape
March 19, 2010 Reading, Writing and Retirement Review: Friday’s Child
March 20, 2010 Staircase Wit Review: The Grand Sophy or Devil’s Cub
March 21, 2010 Medieval Bookworm Review: Cotillion

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This Week in the Tour: Georgette Heyer Week Two

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

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Paris in the Spring: Emile Zola on Tour

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 12, 2010     Literary Lolita Thérèse Raquin

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.

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Harlem Renaissance Circuit in Retrospect

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

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Georgette Heyer Visits the Circuit: Week One

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?

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Paris in the Springtime part deux: Alexandre Dumas Circuit Sign Up

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.

The sign-up has closed.

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This Week in the Circuit: Harlem Renaissance Week Four

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

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Zola (April) Classics Circuit Sign Up

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.

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This Week in the Tour: Harlem Renaissance Week Three

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

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