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White Nights on the Neva: Imperial Russian Literature Tour in Retrospect
Posted by Rebecca Reid in Finished Tours, Tour Schedule on July 19, 2010
The White Nights on the Neva: Imperial Russian Literature Tour has been a great success! Did you miss any posts the first time around? Below are the participants and their posts.
Monday, June 21 Only Words To Play With Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls and it’s anit-hero Chichikov
Monday, June 21 So Many Books Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
Tuesday, June 22 Sasha & The Silverfish Leo Tolstoy’s essay What is Art?
Tuesday, June 22 The Researcher’s Tale A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Wednesday, June 23 Time Enough At Last Dead Souls by Gogol
Wednesday, June 23 Notes from the North Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Thursday, June 24 Pining for the West Liza by Turgenev
Friday, June 25 A Literary Odyssey Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Saturday, June 26 Books and Chocolate A Night at the Cemetery and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Sunday, June 27 The Reading Life Diary of A Superflous Man by Ivan Turgenev
Sunday, June 27 November’s Autumn Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
Monday, June 28 Shelf Love The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Tuesday, June 29 Becky’s Book Reviews Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Tuesday, June 29 Tell Me A Story The Steppe and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Wednesday, June 30 Wuthering Expectations A Russian Gentleman and A Russian Childhood by Sergei Aksakov
Thursday, July 1 Readthisbook.us Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Dostoevsky
Thursday, July 1 Life is a Patchwork Quilt The Russian poets of the Imperial Age (i.e. Pushkin, Lermertov)
Saturday, July 3 Stiletto Storytime The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Monday, July 5 BookNAround Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
Monday, July 5 Lizzy’s Literary Life The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tuesday, July 6 A Common Reader Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy
Thursday, July 8 First Impressions: A Tale of Less Pride and Prejudice Ward No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Checkhov
Thursday, July 8 Sparks’ Notes Anna Karenina (Part 1) by Tolstoy
Thursday, July 8 things mean a lot Short stories by Anton Chekhov
Friday, July 9 eclectic / eccentric House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky
Saturday, July 10 my books. my life. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Sunday, July 11 Ardent Reader Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Monday, July 12 Bibliolatry Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Tuesday, July 13 Bookie Mee Ivan the Fool by Leo Tolstoy
Tuesday, July 13 In Spring it is the Dawn Short stories from The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Wednesday, July 14 Sophisticated Dorkiness Short stories by Anton Chekhov
Wednesday, July 14 Paperback Reader A Russian Affair by Anton Chekhov
Thursday, July 15 Adventures of an Intrepid Reader War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Thursday, July 15 The Blog Jar Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevksy
Friday, July 16 Rebecca Reads Selections from the Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader
Friday, July 16 The Zen Leaf Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Friday, July 16 A Book Lover The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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In the mean time, I’ve started an experiment. To strengthen the community of those who read classics, I’ve started a “Web Ring” for classics readers. If the format doesn’t work, we’ll tweak it; for now, read more information about it here.
The Golden Age of Detective Fiction in Retrospect
Posted by Teresa in Finished Tours on June 12, 2010
Thanks so much to everyone who participated in our Golden Age of Detective Fiction tour! Here’s a list of all the stops, so you can check out anything you missed:
May 17, 2010
Rebecca Reads Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie and Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
Reviews by Lola Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Joyfully Retired Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers
May 20, 2010
Staircase Wit The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham
Tales of a Capricious Reader Death in the Air by Agatha Christie
May 21, 2010
Tell Me A Story Ngaio Marsh – Her Life in Crime by Joanne Drayton and Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh
May 22, 2010
Bibliosue The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
May 23, 2010
A Few More Pages The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
May 24, 2010
BookLust A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh
piningforthewest Death at the President’s Lodging by Michael Innes
The Blog Jar Black Plumes by Margery Allingham
May 26, 2010
52 Annual Book Reviews Lament for a Maker by Michael Innes
Fleur Fisher Reads The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
Brown Paper The Case of William Smith by Patricia Wentworth
May 28, 2010
A Work in Progress The Mystery of Hunting’s End by Mignon Eberhart
May 29, 2010
Life is a Patchwork Quilt Come Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie (autobiography)
May 30, 2010
book-a-rama Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie
May 31, 2010
Sparks’ Notes Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
things mean a lot The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
June 1, 2010
Notes from the North The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
an adventure in reading Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh
June 2, 2010
Reading Through Life Reflections on whether it’s appropriate to teach an Agatha Christie novel (And Then There Were None) to inner-city high school students
June 3, 2010
The Zen Leaf And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
June 4, 2010
So Many Books The Ampersand Papers by Michael Innes
Time Enough at Last Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
June 5, 2010
Lizzy’s Literary Life The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Badgerish.net Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
June 6, 2010
Musings A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
June 7, 2010
Stiletto Storytime The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
In Spring it is the Dawn The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
June 8, 2010
Classic Mysteries Evidence of Things Seen by Elizabeth Daly
June 9, 2010
My Friend Amy The Innocence of Father Brown by GK Chesterton
Books and Chocolate Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
June 10, 2010
Bibliolatry The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
Shelf Love Before the Fact by Francis Iles
June 11, 2010
justaddbooks Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers
Linus’s Blanket Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie
Alexandre Dumas Tour in Retrospect
Posted by Kay in Featured Article, Finished Tours on May 12, 2010
Here’s a list of what you might have missed these three weeks of Dumas’ touring the blogosphere:
April 19, 2010
Reading Through Life: a post about Dumas’ relevance to young readers today
April 20, 2010
Rebecca Reads: review of The Three Musketeers
April 21, 2010
book-a-rama: review of The Wolf Leader
First Impressions: A Tale of Less Pride and Prejudice: review of The Companions of Jehu
April 22, 2010
Semicolon: review of La Reine Margot
Bibliolatry: review of The Black Tulip
April 23, 2010
A Literary Odyssey: review of The Count of Monte Cristo
April 24, 2010
Stiletto Storytime: review of The Queen’s Necklace
April 25, 2010
Tales of a Capricious Reader: review of The Three Musketeers
April 26, 2010
Badgerish.net: review of The Companions of Jehu
Sparks’ Notes: review of The Three Musketeers
April 27, 2010
One Librarian’s Book Reviews: review of The Man in the Iron Mask
April 28, 2010
Good Books & Good Wine: review of The Black Tulip
Kay’s Bookshelf: review of La Reine Margot
April 29, 2010
Wuthering Expectations: review of A Gossip on a Novel of Dumas’s by Robert Louis Stevenson
April 30, 2010
A Striped Armchair: review of Castle Eppstein
May 1, 2010
Maxine Reads: review of The Count of Monte Cristo
May 3, 2010
FLY HIGH!: review of The Black Tulip
May 4, 2010
Shelf Love: review of The Count of Monte Cristo
Fleur Fisher Reads: review of 1001 Ghosts
May 5, 2010
The Reading Life: review of Georges
Daily Words and Acts: review of The Count of Monte Cristo
May 6, 2010
A Book Lover: review of The Three Musketeers
May 8, 2010
The Blog Jar: review of The Count of Monte Cristo
May 9, 2010
It’s All About Books: not-review of Twenty Years After
Emile Zola Tour in Retrospect
Posted by Rebecca Reid in Featured Article, Finished Tours, Tour Schedule on April 28, 2010
The Emile Zola tour was, I think it’s fair to say, a resounding success! Many enjoyed their first book by this author, others maybe did not. But at any rate, I think we enjoyed following Zola’s stops at the following blogs. Thanks for all who participated!
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 14, 2010 Tales from the Reading Room Zola and Naturalism
April 14, 2010 Stiletto Storytime The Ladies’ Paradise [Au Bonheur des Dames]
April 15, 2010 Musings Thérèse Raquin
April 15, 2010 Good Books & Good Wine Germinal
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 21, 2010 Caribousmom Thérèse Raquin
April 22, 2010 The Reading Life Nana
April 23, 2010 Evening All Afternoon Germinal (French edition)
April 23, 2010 A Few of My Favorite Books The Kill
April 24, 2010 Books and Chocolate The Belly of Paris
April 25, 2010 52annualbookreviews Lourdes
April 25, 2010 BookNAround Nana
Georgette Heyer in Retrospect
Posted by Rebecca Reid in Finished Tours, Tour Schedule on April 6, 2010
In March, Georgette Heyer visited the Classics Circuit by visiting a number of blogs around the blogosphere. Did you miss it the first time? Here are the blogs Heyer visited!
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 Child
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?
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
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
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 and These Old Shades
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
March 21, 2010 Medieval Bookworm Review: The Corinthian
March 22, 2010 Bibliolatry Review: Footsteps in the Dark
March 22, 2010 Linus’s Blanket Review: Frederica
March 24, 2010 Kay’s Bookshelf Review: The Grand Sophy
March 26, 2010 A Few More Pages Review: The Nonesuch
March 27, 2010 A Reader’s Respite Review: The Conquerer
March 28, 2010 Tell Me a Story: Review:Faro’s Daughter
March 29, 2010 Sasha & the Silverfish Review: Arabella
March 30, 2010 Becky’s Book Reviews Review: Sprig Muslin
March 30, 2010 Shelf Love Review: A Civil Contract
March 31, 2010 book-a-rama Review: A Lady of Quality
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
Edith Wharton Circuit in Retrospect
Posted by Rebecca Reid in Finished Tours, Tour Schedule on February 3, 2010
Edith Wharton certainly enjoyed her tour of the blogosphere. Check out these great posts.
January 4, 2010 – Rebecca Reads Review: The Touchstone
January 5, 2010 – Shelf Love Review: Custom of the Country
January 5, 2010 – Farm Lane Books Review: Age of Innocence
January 6, 2010 – The Zen Leaf Review: Summer
January 6, 2010 – eclectic / eccentric Review: Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome
January 7, 2010 – Moored at Sea Review: The Fruit of the Tree
January 8, 2010 – Daily Words and Acts Review: The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
January 9, 2010 – Kay’s Bookshelf Review: Age of Innocence
January 10, 2010 – Fleur Fisher Reads Review: Sanctuary
January 11, 2010 – Joyfully Retired Review: On Writing Fiction
January 11, 2010 – andalucy Review: The House of Mirth
January 12, 2010 – Laura’s Musings Review: The Reef and General thoughts on visiting The Mount
January 12, 2010 – A Striped Armchair Review: Ethan Frome, Summer, and Bunner Sisters
January 13, 2010 – book-a-rama Review: The Custom of the County
January 13, 2010 – Just Add Books Review: Sanctuary
January 14, 2010 – Reviews by Lola Review: Ethan Frome
January 15, 2010 – FLY HIGH! Review: The House of Mirth
January 15, 2010 – TexasBookDiva Review : The Buccaneers
January 16, 2010 – Laura’s Reviews Review: Madame de Treymes and Three Novellas
January 17, 2010 – Athyrium filix-femina (The Lady Fern) Review: The Reef
January 18, 2010 – Reading, Writing, Working, Playing Review: Ethan Frome
January 19, 2010 – BookNAround Review: The Glimpses of the Moon
January 20, 2010 – Notes from the North Review: House of Mirth
January 20, 2010 – Books and Chocolate Review: Old New York
January 21, 2010 – Bookgazing Review: The Buccaneers
January 22, 2010 – So Many Books Biography: Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
January 22, 2010 – Carol’s Notebook Review: The Touchstone
January 23, 2010 – Pining for the West Review: The Age of Innocence
January 24, 2010 – Life is a Patchwork Quilt Review: The Glimpses of the Moon
January 25, 2010 – The Blog Jar Review: Ghost Stories
January 26, 2010 – It’s All About Books Review: Ethan Frome
January 27, 2010 – Sparks’ Notes Review: Summer
January 27, 2010 – Caribousmom Review: The Writing of Fiction and The House of Mirth
January 28, 2010 – Time Enough At Last Review: Madame de Tremyes
January 28, 2010 – All the parts of my life Review: The Children
January 29, 2010 – Medieval Bookworm Review: The Custom of the Country
January 31, 2010 – Educating Petunia Review: Summer
Elizabeth Gaskell in Retrospect
Posted by Rebecca Reid in Finished Tours, Tour Schedule on January 6, 2010
If you missed any stops on the tour the first time around, here it is again in an easy to access format. Read the rest of this entry »
Wilkie Collins Tour In Retrospect
Posted by Rebecca Reid in Finished Tours, Tour Schedule on January 5, 2010
If you missed it the first time around, here’s where Wilkie Collins went on his tour of the blogosphere. The post title links to the post directly. Read the rest of this entry »
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