Do you enjoy to discuss books? Especially "Little Women"? Or do you only want someone else to laugh about Alcotts subtly humour? Or want to see if someone else get the hints against the social norm of that time? Then check this out!

I host a Read-a-long in littlewomen_fic which you can find here...


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I've posted my review on my own journal, because I'm having problems with LJ again : I can't do a LJ-cut, even using HTML.

My review is here, and it contains a few spoilers. You're welcome to comment either on this journal or on my personnal journal.

Since there was only one book nominated for next month, there was no need for a poll. The book for November 2011 is The Call of the Wild by Jack London. You can find the text at Project Gutenberg and several audio versions at LibriVox.org. Happy reading!

It's time for nominations for a November book. Please check out "The Library" and then comment in this post with one nomination for a November book. I will leave the nominations open until Wednesday evening, at which point I'll post a poll. As per the rules and policies, books by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Kenneth Grahame and Robert Louis Stevenson are ( Read more... )

I read this book (actually, listened to an audio recording) 4-5 years ago. The post below contains my thoughts at the time.

This is another of those classics that I've been aware of for as long as I can remember, but had never actually read. Thanks to David Barnes at LibriVox, I listened to a recording of it yesterday and really liked it. It ( Read more... )

I literally just finished The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Stevenson . I read this book ten years ago but I didn't remember anything but the most basic plot points, and I decided to pick it up again.

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Well, we only had a single nomination for the October book, so that makes the voting easy. The October 2011 book is The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The text and audio are available at Project Gutenberg. The audio is also available at LibriVox.org. Happy reading!

It's time for nominations for an October book. Please check out "The Library" and then comment in this post with one nomination for an October book. I will leave the nominations open until Monday evening, at which point I'll post a poll. As per the rules and policies, books by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Kenneth Grahame are not eligible.

Despite minimal voting, the winner for September 2011 is The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. Text/audio are available through Project Gutenberg and LibriVox.org. Happy reading!

No clear winner, so here's a runoff. I'll leave it open until Wednesday night, when I'll announce the winner.

Poll September 2011 runoff poll