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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid,  also known as  GEB,  by Douglas R. Hofstadter was the most challenging nonfiction book tha...
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Friday, October 19, 2018

Goodreads and Bookish Memories

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There  are a lot of very good things about Goodreads. In this entry I want to talk a little about entering books read in the past on one’s ...
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Monday, October 8, 2018

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

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The Return of the Native  by Thomas Hardy was first published in 1878. The story takes place in the fictional Egdon Heath, a picturesque ar...
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Friday, September 28, 2018

Independence Lost by Kathleen DuVal

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Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution  by Kathleen DuVal was first published in 2016. The author is a professor o...
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Sunday, September 16, 2018

Mrs. Hurtle in Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now

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My general commentary on Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now is  here . About half of Trollope’s important characters are women....
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Wednesday, September 5, 2018

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

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The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope was first published in 1875. It is a stand-alone novel in that it was not part of Trollope’s two ...
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Monday, August 27, 2018

Gibraltar, The Greatest Siege in British History by Roy Adkins and Lesly Adkins

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Gibraltar, The Greatest Siege in British History  by Roy Adkins and Lesly Adkins was first published this year. The subject is the Spanish ...
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