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I've been looking for a good book lately, and despite the recommendation for this book by a wonderful friend, I'm still looking.   The classic "Cranbrook", a 19th century British novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, can be used to broaden the vocabulary, and if you stretch...

I totally thought this book would be lame, especially since the teacher in "A Christmas Story" the movie, tells the class all about him and they give the most annoyed sighs ever.  Glad I chanced it.  I am enjoying the language, of course, from the 1800's.  Was I born...

It's a marvel to me that people are the same, no matter the time or place; they have choices and make decisions that change the course of their lives from one moment to the next.  The main character in the above book, a rich man with a lot to lea, is struggling deeply...

I've always been drawn to African American lit, I am not even sure why, but I was totally drawn in to this book I read for my book club earlier this week.  It is an easy read in the sense that Douglass is a very fluid, matter of fact and yet somehow poetic writer....

The layers that are found in "Charlotte's Web" never cease to amaze me. I read this book annually, or so it seems, because it draws me to a craftmanship unparelleled in most modern reads.  Maybe this is in part because today books are published at an overwhelming rate...

Entranced in another round of Jane, I cannot seem to get tired of her writing, since each new turn of the book provides me another glimpse of something beautiful.  This time, this quotation really sticks with me as true to life yet, and so many years ago, as Jane...