This Week in the Circuit: Dumas and Zola
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates, Tours on April 19, 2010
This week marks the beginning of the Dumas Tour. Here’s where he will visit first:
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 Count of Monte Cristo
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
This is also the last week of the Zola tour. His last tours are as follows.
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 Paperback Reader 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 BookLust The Fortune of the Rougons
April 25, 2010 52annualbookreviews Lourdes
Finally, if you haven’t already, make sure you participate in the feedback survey by Wednesday. We want to know what you think about the Classics Circuit!
This Week in the Circuit
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates, Tours on April 12, 2010
Not only is Emile Zola continuing his tour with stops at the following blogs, but this week you are invited to participate in a feedback survey concerning The Classics Circuit. See this post for more information and fill out the survey today!
April 12, 2010 Pining for the West Germinal
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 17, 2010 Lakeside Musing The Ladies’ Paradise
April 18, 2010 Medieval Bookworm Germinal
The Golden Age of Detective Fiction on Tour
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates on April 11, 2010
Beginning Monday, May 17, 2010, The Golden Age of Detective Fiction will be going on a virtual tour of the blogosphere. Check out these participating blogs where you’ll find reviews of a number detective novels from the 1920s and 1930s, as well as general information the era.
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.
May 17, 2010 Rebecca Reads Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie and/or Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
May 18, 2010 Reviews by Lola Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
May 18, 2010 Joyfully Retired Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers
May 19, 2010 Literary Lolita And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
May 20, 2010 Staircase Wit The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham
May 20, 2010 Tales of a Capricious Reader Review of an Agatha Christie novel
May 21, 2010 Tell Me A Story Ngaio Marsh – Her Life in Crime by Joanne Drayton and/or Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh
May 22, 2010 Bibliosue The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
May 22, 2010 Brimful Bookshelves The ABC Murders 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
May 24, 2010 piningforthewest Death at the President’s Lodging by Michael Innes
May 25, 2010 The Blog Jar Black Plumes by Margery Allingham
May 26, 2010 52 Annual Book Reviews Lament for a Maker by Michael Innes
May 26, 2010 Fleur Fisher Reads The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
May 27, 2010 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 28, 2010 Reading, Writing, Working, Playing The Man Who Knew Too Much by G.K. Chesterton
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
May 31, 2010 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
June 1, 2010 an adventure in reading Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh
June 2, 2010 Reading Through Life Reflections on teaching an Agatha Christie novel (And Then There Were None) to inner-city high school students
June 2, 2010 Good Books and Good Wine The Documents In The Case by Dorothy L. Sayers with Robert Eustace
June 3, 2010 The Zen Leaf And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
June 3, 2010 A Striped Armchair The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
June 4, 2010 So Many Books The Ampersand Papers by Michael Innes
June 4, 2010 Time Enough at Last Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
June 5, 2010 Lizzy’s Literary Life The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
June 5, 2010 Badgerish.net Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
June 6, 2010 Musings A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
June 6, 2010 Literary Lolita And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
June 7, 2010 Stiletto Storytime The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
June 7, 2010 In Spring it is the Dawn The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
June 8, 2010 A Book Lover Whose Body and/or The Whimsical Christian by Dorothy L. Sayers
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
June 9, 2010 Books and Chocolate The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr
June 10, 2010 Bibliolatry The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
June 10, 2010 Shelf Love Before the Fact by Francis Iles
June 11, 2010 justaddbooks Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers
June 11, 2010 Linus’s Blanket Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie
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 fit you in. Just e-mail us at classicscircuit [at] googlegroups [dot] com.
Feedback Survey!
Posted by admin in General Information on April 7, 2010
It’s your turn!
Please tell us what you enjoy about the Classics Circuit and what you’d like to see in the future by filling out the feedback survey. It’s about 15 brief questions, and it shouldn’t take you long.
You don’t need to have participated in tours to fill out the survey, although it may be easier to answer some of the questions if you have been. You just have to be interested in the past and future of the Circuit.
Survey is now closed.
To avoid any confusion, I’ve turned off comments on this post. Please leave your feedback on the survey. The last page has a text box where you can share any general comments you may have.
Georgette Heyer in Retrospect
Posted by admin in Tour in Retrospect, Tours 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
This Week in the Tour: Emile Zola
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates, Tours on April 5, 2010
April is here, which means our celebration of Paris in the Springtime. In the coming week, Emile Zola will be visiting the following blogs.
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
This Week on the Tour: Georgette Heyer Week Five
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates, Tours on March 29, 2010
This last, short week for Georgette Heyer sees her stopping at these great blogs.
March 29, 2010 Sasha & the Silverfish Review: Arabella
March 30, 2010 Becky’s Book Reviews Review: Venetia or Sylvester
March 30, 2010 Shelf Love Review: A Civil Contract
March 31, 2010 book-a-rama Review: A Lady of Quality
Remember to sign up for The Golden Age of Detective Fiction tour.
Sign Up Open for Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Posted by admin in Newsletter on March 23, 2010
Are you ready to read some Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers? What about Dashiell Hammet or Josephine Tey?
Sign up is now open for the upcoming Golden Age of Detective Fiction tour (mid-May through June).
May/June 2010: The Golden Age of Detective Fiction Sign-up
Posted by admin in Intro and Sign Up on March 22, 2010
Time to pull out your magnifying glasses, examine all the clues, and figure out “whodunit” because the many wonderful authors from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction will be touring the Classics Circuit in May and June!
The 1920s and 1930s are often referred as the Golden Age of Detective Fiction because of the flourishing of the genre during those years. Some of the most famous mystery writers ever were writing during that period, and their works continue to define the mystery genre in the minds of many readers. Most of the authors of the Golden Age were British, but some were Americans, and many of these wrote in a more hard-boiled style than their British counterparts.
Read on to find out more about the authors widely considered part of the movement and some of their works from the era. These authors and works (selected from the Wikipedia entries on the Golden Age and the Detection Club) are just a few examples of the wide array of Golden Age Detective Fiction out there, so you don’t need to limit yourself to these writers. We have limited these lists primarily to works published in the 1920s and 1930s that are still in print; however, any detective fiction from the 1920s and 1930s by a now dead author, as well as works by Golden Age authors published outside this 20-year period, would qualify for inclusion. Posts about biographies of the authors or books about detective fiction in the Golden Age would also be welcome on the tour.
Click on the appropriate link below to go directly to a list of each author’s works. Unless otherwise noted, book lists and plot descriptions are from Wikipedia. (Note: We are avoiding spoilers as best we can in our descriptions, but some of the linked plot summaries do give away the solutions to the mysteries, so proceed with caution.)
- The Detection Club
- Margery Allingham
- H.C. Bailey
- Anthony Berkeley
- John Dickson Carr
- Raymond Chandler
- G.K. Chesterton
- Agatha Christie
- Freeman Wills Crofts
- R. Austin Freeman
- Dashiell Hammett
- Michael Innes
- Ngaio Marsh
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Josephine Tey
See the Golden Age of Detection Wiki for an extensive list of authors and works and links to other resources.
Sign-ups for the tour are closed.
The tour is expected to run from May 17 to June 11.
This Week in the Tour: Georgette Heyer Week Four
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates, Tours on March 22, 2010
Georgette Heyer continues her tour this week with stops at these great blogs.
March 22, 2010 Bibliolatry Review: Footsteps in the Dark
March 22, 2010 Linus’s Blanket Review: Frederica
March 23, 2010 Laura’s Reviews Review: The Foundling
March 24, 2010 Kay’s Bookshelf : Undecided Heyer
March 25, 2010 Queen of Happy Endings Review: Arabella or Friday’s Child or The Grand Sophy or Cousin Kate
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 or The Grand Sophy or Devil’s Cub or Arabella or The Talisman Ring
March 28, 2010 Stephanie’s Confessions of a Bookaholic Review: Footsteps in the Dark or Why Shoot a Butler?
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