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Showing posts with label classic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classic. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Top 10 Most Unique Classics I've Read

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is Top Ten Of The Most Unique Books I've Read. I decided to go with classics because there are some wonderful old books out there that get overlooked in the blogging community. Click the covers to go to the...

Tuesday, 1 November 2016

A New Favourite: Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

Jane Austen meets JRR Tolkien I watched the 2016 BBC mini-series a few months ago, which made me want to read the book. In case you don't know, the book is a monster, and it took me exactly 2 months to read. I read the ebook, not the physical book pictured, for this reason. War and Peace...

Tuesday, 22 December 2015

Thursday, 17 April 2014

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings #2) by J.R.R. Tolkien

  Date finished: 16 April 2014 Got insomnia? Read The Lord of the Rings! Guaranteed cure! Well, actually, The Two Towers was much better than Fellowship. I liked the second book a lot more than the first. To be honest, I should rate this 3 stars and the first book 2, as that would...

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien

  Date finished: 2 March 2014 As a huge fan of the movies, I wanted to enjoy this more than I actually did. The movies are incredible. But the book is not. For someone who is in this fandom and enjoyed The Hobbit, it's hard for me to say this, but: Tolkien just wasn't that great an...
I'm Alexandria, a 19-year-old reader/writer/blogger from New Zealand. I love language, history, and sci-fi. Hi! I'm always around if you want to talk, which you can do via comments, the contact form, or Facebook.

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