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Alicia Brown

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Category: Great Books

fun books, Great Books, novel, reading, teens, writing, YA

Why I Love YA

As those of you familiar with my blog already know, for someone with a master’s degree in English, I’ve read appallingly few of what the world considers important books, or Great Books. There are several reasons for this, but the […]

January 6, 2015by Alicia Brown
Great Books, historical fiction, YA

What I’m Reading: The Book Thief

I suffered a personal loss while reading Marcus Zusak’s “The Book Thief” – my husband and I buried our beloved dog, who passed away last month after a long illness – so I’m sadly familiar with how our minds struggle […]

July 31, 2014by Alicia Brown
Great Books, reading list, YA

What to Read: The Yearling

Hubby and I were flipping through channels Sunday night, and we landed on “The Yearling,” the 1946 film adaptation of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ 1938 novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. I never had to read “The Yearling” for […]

June 19, 2014April 22, 2019by Alicia Brown
19th century, Great Books, reading list

What to Read: Adam Bede

Spent last weekend in Tennessee celebrating the birthday of my father-in-law, who told me that his favorite book is “Adam Bede” by George Eliot. While I’ve had “Middlemarch” recommended to me several times over the years, I think this was […]

February 15, 2014by Alicia Brown
e-books, fun books, Great Books, reading list, t.h. white

Reading List: The Once and Future King

Netflix recently added “The Sword in the Stone” to its streaming lineup, and since it’s one of the few Disney animated features I’d never seen, I sat down with my husband, who remembers watching it on VHS as a child, […]

December 14, 2013by Alicia Brown
fun books, Great Books, reading list, YA

World’s Worst-read English Major?

I am what some may consider the world’s worst-read English major. I can’t count the number of conversations I’ve had in which someone has said to me “What? You’ve never read [insert name of Great Book here]?” For instance, I […]

November 17, 2013by Alicia Brown

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