Imperial Russian Literature on Tour
Posted by admin in Coming Soon on May 26, 2010
Beginning Monday, June 21, 2010, we’ll be celebrating White Nights on the Neva as Imperial Russian Literature goes on a virtual tour of the blogosphere. Check out these participating blogs where you’ll find reviews.
The button for this tour is a picture of St. Petersburg and the Neva River on a “white night.” It was taken by Incandenzafied of Flickr and used under a Creative Common License. The caption for this image on Flickr? “Yep, real pretty there.” Feel free to use the button to promote your participation in the blog tour. Please download it to your computer first.
Monday, June 21 Only Words To Play With Thoughts on Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and/or Tolstoy
Monday, June 21 So Many Books Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
Tuesday, June 22 Sasha & The Silverfish The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Tuesday, June 22 The Researcher’s Tale A Hero of Our Time Tale 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 A Literary Odyssey Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
Thursday, June 24 Pining for the West Virgin Soil or Liza by Turgenev
Friday, June 25 Inside Books undecided
Friday, June 25 A Few of My Favourite Books First Love by Ivan Turgenev
Saturday, June 26 Books and Chocolate The Shooting Party or short story collection by Anton Chekhov
Sunday, June 27 The Reading Life Diary of A Superflous Man by Turgenev
Sunday, June 27 November’s Autumn Rudin by Turgenev
Monday, June 28 Shelf Love The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov
Tuesday, June 29 Becky’s Book Reviews War and Peace or 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
Wednesday, June 30 Reading Through Life Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
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
Friday, July 2 Rundpinne The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy and Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Friday, July 2 Radiant Light The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Saturday, July 3 Stiletto Storytime The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sunday, July 4 things mean a lot Short stories by Anton Chekhov
Monday, July 5 BookNAround Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
Monday, July 5 Lizzy’s Literary Life The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tuesday, July 6 The Blog Jar Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevksy
Tuesday, July 6 A Common Reader Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy
Wednesday, July 7 Fleur Fisher Reads Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
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 by Tolstoy
Friday, July 9 eclectic / eccentric House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky
Friday, July 9 Review, Rewrite, and Rewind Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Saturday, July 10 my books. my life. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Sunday, July 11 Ardent Reader Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sunday, July 11 Rob Around Books Chekhov’s characters
Monday, July 12 Bibliolatry Eugene Onegin by Pushkin
Monday, July 12 Reading, Writing, Working, Playing Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Tuesday, July 13 Bookie Mee Short story or stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky or LeoTolstoy
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 Bluestalking Diary of a Superfluous Man by Ivan Turgenev
Friday, July 16 Rebecca Reads Selections from the Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader
Friday, July 16 The Zen Leaf Dead Souls by Gogol
Friday, July 16 A Book Lover The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
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.
This Week in the Circuit
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates, Tours on May 24, 2010
This is the second week of our Golden Age of Detective Fiction tour. Check out these blogs during the week to learn about the great mysteries of the 20s and 30s.
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 Review, Rewrite, and Rewind 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 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
This Week in the Circuit
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates, Tours on May 17, 2010
Today marks the beginning of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction tour. Here are the tour stops for the week:
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 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
Alexandre Dumas Tour in Retrospect
Posted by admin in Tour in Retrospect 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
Sign Up Open for White Nights on the Neva: Imperial Russia Tour
Posted by admin in Newsletter on May 11, 2010
Sign up is now open for the White Nights on the Neva: Imperial Russian Literature Classics Circuit! Whether you’ve been looking for an excuse to read a Russian classic novel by Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy or you’d like to give some short stories by Chekhov a try, we hope you’ll consider joining the tour. The introduction page lists a few authors you may want to try, and you can consider any 19th century “golden age” Russian author that you’d like.
Sign ups will be open until Friday, May 21 (Chicago time). The tour will begin June 21 and will run for three or four weeks.
NOTE: If you want to sign up for the tour, please visit the sign up page and fill out the form. Comments have been disabled on this post so there won’t be confusion.
White Nights on the Neva: Russian Imperial Literature Circuit Sign Up
Posted by admin in Intro and Sign Up on May 11, 2010
On June 21, we will begin a new Classics Circuit, the White Nights on the Neva: Russian Imperial Literature. Depending on the number of people who sign up, it will run for three or four weeks, that is, until July 11 or July 17.
The nineteenth century is generally known as the “golden era” of Russian literature, and this tour is our opportunity to embrace it. Romanticism flourished with Alexander Pushkin’s poetry, followed by many other poets, such as Mikhail Lermontov. For those outside of Russia, the prose writers are possibly more well known: Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Anton Chekhov, as well as Goncharov.
While on this information page we highlight some of the most well known novels and stories by these authors, any author or writing from the golden age of Russian literature (19th century) is suitable for the tour. This list is just to give you ideas and get you started if you are a newbie. Some of these works are quite long, but most authors also wrote short stories. Choose something you have time to read for the Circuit and enjoy! For more information and other authors you may want to consider, see Wikipedia.
Sign up is now closed.
If you missed sign up and would still like to participate in the tour, please send an email to the committee at classicscircuit@googlegroups.com and we will see if we can add you to the schedule.
This Week in the Circuit
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates, Tours on May 4, 2010
All good things come to an end, so here we are, in the last week of the Dumas Tour. His last (but definitely not least) stops are as follows:
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 8, 2010 The Blog Jar The Count of Monte Cristo
May 9, 2010 It’s All About Books Twenty Years After
Emile Zola Tour in Retrospect
Posted by admin in Tour in Retrospect 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 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
This Week in the Circuit
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates, Tours on April 25, 2010
We’re right in the middle of the Dumas Tour (week 2 out of 3). So far we’ve already had a bunch of great reviews, and here’s what’s scheduled to follow:
April 26, 2010 Badgerish.Net The Companions of Jehu
April 26, 2010 Sparks’ Notes The Three Musketeers
April 27, 2010 One Librarian’s Book 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
White Nights along the Neva: Vote for the June Circuit
Posted by admin in Coming Soon, Voting on April 21, 2010
Today’s the last day to take our Feedback Survey! We’re using this as a way to make the Classics Circuit even better, and it’s your chance to influence the future of th
e Circuit. It’s pretty brief, so please take a moment to fill it out if you haven’t yet done so.
To coincide with White Nights (the days around midsummer during which the sun never sets in St. Petersburg), we will be hosting a Russian themed tour beginning mid-June. Rather than selecting an author, this poll is to select a time period:
- Imperial Russia: nineteenth-century authors including Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Alexander Pushkin, Anton Chekhov, and Ivan Turgenev.
- Soviet Russia: early twentieth-century authors including Mikhail Bulgakov, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Nina Berberova, and Leon Trotsky.
The survey has now been closed.
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