Blogging the Canon
A middle-aged non-English major wrestles with the classics
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Book #71 - War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
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2020 is finally over and it is a truth universally acknowledged that the past year can be best described by the phrase "shit show"...
Monday, December 23, 2019
Book #70 - The Hound of the Baskervilles (A. Conan Doyle)
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I am doomed. Across the street from where I work a new liquor store has recently opened up called Total Wine . Total Wine is the be-a...
Friday, May 17, 2019
Book #69 - Persuasion (Jane Austen)
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After a long day at work and a rainy commute home I'm drinking a snifter of Hennessy VSOP Privilege Cognac . I know almost nothin...
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Book #68 - Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
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I'm a bourbon man from way back. Back in the days when you could find Van Winkle Bourbon on most liquor store shelves for around...
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Book #67 - Metamorphoses (Ovid)
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Wow, it's been nine months since my last post. It's been so long that I'm not even sure if people still blog anymore. Th...
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Book #66 - The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer)
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War is hell. And that's my rationale for sipping on a Plymouth Navy Strength Gin martini while writing this review. If I d...
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Friday, July 21, 2017
Book #65 (Part 3) - Sugar Street (Naguib Mahfouz)
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Motherfuckers!! They get me every time!! So I go to the liquor store, which in my case is Beverages and More (who have now taken to ...
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