Anthony Trollope Tour
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates on December 6, 2010
Welcome to our Anthony Trollope tour! It will run from Monday, December 6 to Friday, December 17. Check back here to see which blogs Mr Trollope will visit each day during the tour.
Here are the blogs Mr. Trollope will be visiting each day.
(If you think there is an error below, please leave a comment or send me an email at rebecca[at]rebeccareid[dot]com. If you’d like to join the tour, also please send me an email.)
Monday, December 6 things mean a lot Framley Parsonage
Monday, December 6 Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog Miss Mackenzie or Mr. Scarborough’s Family.
Monday, December 6 2,606 Books and counting…… The West Indies and the Spanish Main
Tuesday, December 7 First impressions The Bertrams
Tuesday, December 7 Classics in Context The Claverings
Tuesday, December 7 Bibliophiliac The Prime Minister
Wednesday, December 8 Lifetime Reading Plan Rachel Ray
Wednesday, December 8 A Few of My Favourite Books Can You Forgive Her?
Thursday, December 9 Desperate Reader Doctor Thorne
Friday, December 10 A Few More Pages The Two Heroines of Plumplington
Friday, December 10 Pining for the West The Belton Estate
Saturday, December 11 Becky’s Book Reviews Lady Anna
Saturday, December 11 Musings Barchester Towers
Sunday, December 12 Stiletto Storytime “Christmas at Thompson Hall”
Sunday, December 12 Reading, Writing, Working, Playing The Warden
Sunday, December 12 Tony’s Reading List He Knew He Was Right
Monday, December 13 pages turned The Way We Live Now
Monday, December 13 She Reads Novels Barchester Towers
Tuesday, December 14 Reading Life Cousin Henry
Wednesday, December 15 Mustard Seed Book Reviews The Christmas Stories (or The Warden)
Wednesday, December 15 Fleur Fisher in her world Cousin Henry
Wednesday, December 15 Books and Chocolate Barchester Towers
Thursday, December 16 Caribousmom The Warden
Thursday, December 16 A Literary Odyssey Barchester Towers
Thursday, December 16 Shelf Love He Knew He Was Right
Friday, December 17 Rebecca Reads Phineas Finn
Friday, December 17 It’s All About Books The Way We Live Now
Friday, December 17 nomadreader The Warden
Coming in January: Ancient Greek Classics Circuit
Posted by admin in Coming Soon on November 22, 2010
The result of the poll is the Ancient Greeks! Our late January Classics Circuit will focus on welcoming the Ancient Greeks to the blogosphere.
Sign up for the Ancient Greek Circuit will be in the middle of December. Check back in a few weeks to sign up. And don’t forget to follow the Trollope tour, starting December 6!
Choose the Next Circuit: Ancient Classics Survey
Posted by admin in Coming Soon, Voting on November 12, 2010
Although I haven’t yet determined the exact dates, January’s Classics Circuit will run at the end of January. It’s time for the Classics Circuit to hearken back to the first definition of “Classic,” those works of classical antiquity.
“classic: A literary work of Ancient Greece or Rome” (Merriam-Webster.com, “classic” definition 1)
Our January tour will focus either on the Greek Classics or the Roman Classics.
It’s All Greek to Me: The Ancient Greeks wrote epic poetry, plays, and histories, including Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, and Sappho.
Roman Holiday: From Virgil to Horace, Ovid, Seneca, and Apuleius, the Romans’ poetry, epigrams, essays, and plays have an integral spot in the Western canon.
Which would you like to see featured on the Circuit?
SURVERY is closed. The next tour will feature the ANCIENT GREEKS.
Coming Soon: Anthony Trollope Tour
Posted by admin in Coming Soon on November 11, 2010
Our Anthony Trollope tour will run from Monday, December 6 to Friday, December 17.
Our button comes from the frontspiece of the first publication of The Last Chronicle of Barset (published 1867).
Here are the blogs Mr. Trollope will be visiting each day.
If you think there is an error below, please leave a comment or send me an email at rebecca[at]rebeccareid[dot]com. If you’d like to join the tour, please send me an email.
Monday, December 6 things mean a lot Framley Parsonage
Monday, December 6 Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog Miss Mackenzie or Mr. Scarborough’s Family.
Monday, December 6 2,606 Books and counting…… The West Indies and the Spanish Main
Tuesday, December 7 First impressions The Bertrams
Tuesday, December 7 Classics in Context The Claverings
Wednesday, December 8 Lifetime Reading Plan Rachel Ray
Wednesday, December 8 A Few of My Favourite Books Can You Forgive Her?
Thursday, December 9 Fig and Thistle He Knew He Was Right
Thursday, December 9 Desperate Reader Doctor Thorne
Friday, December 10 A Few More Pages The Two Heroines of Plumplington
Friday, December 10 Pining for the West The Belton Estate
Saturday, December 11 Becky’s Book Reviews Lady Anna
Saturday, December 11 Musings Barchester Towers
Sunday, December 12 Stiletto Storytime “Christmas at Thompson Hall”
Sunday, December 12 Reading, Writing, Working, Playing The Warden
Monday, December 13 pages turned The Way We Live Now
Monday, December 13 She Reads Novels Barchester Towers
Tuesday, December 14 Reading Life Cousin Henry
Tuesday, December 14 just add books The Way We Live Now
Wednesday, December 15 Mustard Seed Book Reviews The Christmas Stories (or The Warden)
Wednesday, December 15 Fleur Fisher in her world Cousin Henry
Wednesday, December 15 Books and Chocolate Barchester Towers
Thursday, December 16 Caribousmom The Warden
Thursday, December 16 A Literary Odyssey Barchester Towers
Thursday, December 16 Shelf Love He Knew He Was Right
Friday, December 17 Rebecca Reads Phineas Finn
Friday, December 17 It’s All About Books The Way We Live Now
Friday, December 17 nomadreader The Warden
Land of the Rising Sun: Meiji-era Japanese Classics In Retrospect
Posted by admin in Tour in Retrospect on November 10, 2010
Our Meiji-Japan tour is over, and we sure had a great time following it!
Below are permalinks to the blogger’s posts that were a part of this tour. I hope you
Monday, November 1
Shelf Love I Am a Cat by Sōseki Natsume
Rebecca Reads Short stories by Ichiyō Higuchi
Tuesday, November 2
nomadreader Tower of London: Tales of Victorian London by Sōseki Natsume
Genji Press Exotic Japanese Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Mustard Seed Book Reviews Ukigumo [Floating Cloud] by Futabeatei Shimei
Wednesday, November 3
Stiletto Storytime I Am a Cat by Sōseki Natsume
2,606 Books and Counting Heredity of Taste by Sōseki Natsume
Thursday, November 4
The Reading Life Short Stories of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Bookie Mee Short Stories of Mori Ogai
Booksploring Botchan by Sōseki Natsume
Friday, November 5
In Spring it is the Dawn Japanese Gothic Tales by Kyōka Izumi
Currently Touring! Meiji-Era Japanese Classics
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates on October 31, 2010
Tomorrow begins our Meiji-era Japanese classics tour!
Monday, November 1
Shelf Love I Am a Cat by Sōseki Natsume
Rebecca Reads Short stories by Ichiyō Higuchi
Tuesday, November 2
nomadreader Tower of London: Tales of Victorian London by Sōseki Natsume
Genji Press Exotic Japanese Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Mustard Seed Book Reviews Ukigumo [Floating Cloud] by Futabeatei Shimei
Wednesday, November 3
Stiletto Storytime I Am a Cat by Sōseki Natsume
2,606 Books and Counting Heredity of Taste by Sōseki Natsume
Paperback Reader I Am a Cat by Sōseki Natsume
Thursday, November 4
The Reading Life Short Stories of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Bookie Mee Short Stories of Mori Ogai
Booksploring Botchan by Sōseki Natsume
Friday, November 5
In Spring it is the Dawn Japanese Gothic Tales by Kyōka Izumi
Sign Up Open for Anthony Trollope
Posted by admin in Newsletter on October 23, 2010
The Classics Circuit is pleased to announce the Anthony Trollope tour. Tentative dates are December 6 through 17, and sign up is currently open. Sign up before Wednesday, November 3.
Sign up is closed.
Introducing: Anthony Trollope Tour
Posted by admin in Intro and Sign Up on October 23, 2010
The Classics Circuit is pleased to announce an upcoming tour! In our Anthony Trollope Tour, we will be reading works by the prolific Victorian writer, Anthony Trollope.
Anthony Trollope was born in London in 1815. When he died in 1882, he’d written 70 major works, including novels, stories, sketches, essays, and travelogues. Our hopes are that this Classics Circuit appropriately recognizes his talent.
The tour will be shorter this time around, as I plan on changing the set up of the tour to be a little more cohesive. Dates are tentative, although I anticipate that the Anthony Trollope Tour will begin on December 6 and run until December 17.
I have prepared this introduction in a slightly different way than I have in the past. I’m letting my fellow bloggers and book reviewers speak for each book. Instead of including summaries of each book, I’ve linked the title, where available, to Wikipedia’s summary of the book. (Although note that the bulk of the Wikipedia entry may include plot details.) Also, after each book title, I’ve included a blurb from a blog, a LibraryThing review, or an Amazon review. Often those reviews contain basic plot information without spoilers, and you should be able to get a general idea about what the book is about and whether you will enjoy it.
It is my hope that this list and the praise from fellow readers will help you get ideas about which Anthony Trollope novel (or nonfiction) you would like to read for the tour. Please note that I personally am not an expert on Anthony Trollope. I’m just a reader like you hoping to enjoy this journey.
There are sections on this page for Anthony Trollope’s two major series, The Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Palliser Novels, as well as sections for other major works, lesser-known works, and works Trollope wrote without online summaries or reviews. Anything by Anthony Trollope would work for this tour, even if it’s not listed below.
About the Classics Circuit. The Classics Circuit: Anthony Trollope Tour is a blog tour of Trollope’s works. Participants select a work to read and let us know of the selection. Via email, we will assign participants a day to post about the work. On the assigned days, participants post about the work on their blogs. Participants write in their own style, for whatever length of post they’d like. After the tour is over, we will post on our site a list of permalinks to all those who participated in the tour. Note that you must have a blog to participate.
Sign up is open until Wednesday, November 3 in the evening.
Sign up is closed.
Second Chance Survey
Posted by admin in Coming Soon, Voting on October 11, 2010
The next tour will be one of those persons who lost a previous poll for a Classics Circuit. The sign up will be at the end of October and the tour will run the beginning of December, for one of two weeks.
Please let us know which author(s) you’d like the Classics Circuit to feature. This poll will be open until Friday night, October 15.
SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED.
The December Circuit will feature ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
Land of the Rising Sun: Meiji-era Japanese Classics
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates on October 11, 2010
Our Meiji-era Japanese classics tour will run from November 1 until November 5.
The button from the tour comes from a 1898 photograph by T. Emani, a respected Meiji-era photographer. Mount Fuji is in the distance. Apparently, this spot is today the center of a busy interstate, convenience stores, and car dealerships. It reminds us of the different era that was Meiji Japan. For more information on the picture, see Okinawa Soba’s photostream on flickr.
Below is the schedule for this tour. I look forward to learning more from you, as there are a variety of works represented. I hope you too enjoy following the tour.
If you are coming here late and would like to add your name to the schedule or if you think there is an error below, please send me an email at rebecca[at]rebeccareid[dot]com and I will fix it.
Monday, November 1
Shelf Love I Am a Cat by Sōseki Natsume
Rebecca Reads Short stories by Ichiyō Higuchi
Tuesday, November 2
nomadreader Tower of London: Tales of Victorian London by Sōseki Natsume
Genji Press Exotic Japanese Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Mustard Seed Book Reviews Ukigumo [Floating Cloud] by Futabeatei Shimei
Wednesday, November 3
Stiletto Storytime I Am a Cat by Sōseki Natsume
2,606 Books and Counting Heredity of Taste by Sōseki Natsume
Paperback Reader I Am a Cat by Sōseki Natsume
Thursday, November 4
The Reading Life Short Stories of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Bookie Mee Short Stories of Mori Ogai
Booksploring Botchan by Sōseki Natsume
Friday, November 5
In Spring it is the Dawn Japanese Gothic Tales by Kyōka Izumi
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