The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky First published 1880 776 very long, very boring pages ******************** FTC disclosure: I bought this, to my eternal regret. ******************** This is my final post for the K Bros read-along that Trish, Jenners and I … Continue reading
Well, I’m late to my own party. Again. Although since there are only 3 of us reading along, it’s not really a party. More like three people holed up in their own homes with a book in one hand and … Continue reading
I’m a bit late reporting in for my own read-along. And I could offer up all sorts of excuses, but what it really comes down to is this…I didn’t finish the reading on time. But! I persevered (because I’m reading … Continue reading
Mitya may claim that Karamazovs love depravity (“I loved depravity, I also loved the shame of depravity. I loved cruelty: am I not a bedbug, an evil insect? In short – a Karamazov!” p. 109), but I’d argue that they … Continue reading
Now that we’ve gotten Wuthering Heights out of the way, Trish and I have cooked up another read-along. Drum roll please…. It’s the Brothers Karamazov Ceilidh! Huh? Well, ceilidh is Gaelic for a party with music and dancing and sometimes … Continue reading
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ~S.I. Hayakawa
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
~Mark Twain
