Tag: Classic Fiction
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Reflecting on my Reading Habits
2025 has been a whirlwind of a year, with many reading goals and habits in mind and most of them implemented, but whether or not they were successful remains to be seen. So, as we are arriving at the yer’s end, I figured now would be the best time to reflect on what reading goals…
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More Earthsea Goodness in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan
Another day, another Earthsea tale! I have adjusted my post schedule for these novels to better align with the number of library books I have out (currently sitting at 28), and so that I can enjoy them over most of the summer rather than rushing through them all before the year’s end. The Tombs of…
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Back to the Basics with Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea
I am going to be honest here and say I have not read The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. Any of them. I had heard of them, of course, but it is only now in my mid-twenties that I possess a copy of them. This copy has already shocked and surprised me…
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Dystopian Literary Fiction in I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
With its recent reprinting and regained hype on bookish social media, I decided to give Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men a read. With its dystopian sci-fi setting, raw detail, and startling exploration of the unknown, it is certainly something different, and will have you thinking about its content long after finishing. A…
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My Scholarly Reading Month Debrief
Considering plans went out the window and many DNFs were had during the last month, I figured some of you may be interested in finding out how my Scholarly Reading Month really panned out. What did I not share? How come some of the author names I mentioned in the Scholarly Reading Month post at…
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The Psychological Horror of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House
As the bridge between scholarly classic reading and Spooktober’s chilling thrills, I thought Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House would be an excellent final post for September’s Scholarly Reading Month. Not only is Shirley Jackson an absolute beast of a horror writer in the best possible way, but The Haunting of Hill House serves…
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All Aboard Seichō Matsumoto’s Japanese Classic Tokyo Express
Get your tickets ready for this foreign crime fiction tale. Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto is a riveting novel laced with that crime noir feel and historical setting. It is a short yet well-plotted read that delivers red herrings and dead-ends until the very end. In a rocky cove at Hakata Bay, the bodies of…