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Alicia Brown

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Category: reading list

fun books, reading list, teens, YA

What I’m Reading: The Age of Miracles

Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles starts with a very simple premise: what if the rotation of the Earth slowed slightly so that the days and nights gradually became longer and longer? Walker tells the story through the eyes […]

March 7, 2016by 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
reading list, writing

Better late than never: I’m on Goodreads!

I’m a little embarrassed that it took me so long to discover this wonderful resource for writers and authors. (What can I say… I’ve always been a bit of a late bloomer!) But I’m pleased to say that I now […]

April 9, 2014by 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
19th century, e-books, fun books, humor, reading list, travel books

What I’m Reading: Three Men in a Boat

I recently finished “Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog!)” by Jerome K. Jerome, a book I’d never heard of until my sister recommended it to me last fall. The story is a humorous account of […]

January 1, 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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