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  • Classic Shorts: Eight Stories for Summer
    by Poets & Writers
  • Pride and Prejudice
    by Austen, Jane
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Twain, Mark
  • Anna Karenina
    by Tolstoy, Leo
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
    by Dumas, Alexandre
  • Little Women
    by Alcott, Louisa May
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    by Carroll, Lewis
  • Wuthering Heights
    by Brontë, Emily
  • Dracula
    by Stoker, Bram
  • Treasure Island
    by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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• Walden 28% complete
• Grammar Devotional 67% complete
• The Call of the Wild finished
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button finished
• Who is Mark Twain? finished
• Ivan the Fool finished
• The Diary of a Superfluous Man finished

  Superfluous, indeed... I might be too used to a nice, clean, Hollywood ending, but this seemed to end abruptly. Many questions unanswered. What was Tchulkaturin’s illness? Why did Liza marry Bizmyonkov? Did she need to marry to cover up some disgrace? (Like carrying the Prince’s child?) The weather mentioned at the beginning of each diary entry did foretell the mood of the entry to follow and of what must’ve been going on in Tchulkaturin’s heart. Good read, but a bit superfluous... I posted this on 01 April 2009
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• On the Decay of the Art of Lying finished

Reader Challenges - 6 Word Autobiography

Only need two words: Loved God.

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The Diary of a Superfluous Man - Superfluous, indeed...

I might be too used to a nice, clean, Hollywood ending, but this seemed to end abruptly. Many questions unanswered. What was Tchulkaturin’s illness? Why did Liza marry Bizmyonkov? Did she need to marry to cover up some disgrace? (Like carrying the Prince’s child?) The weather mentioned at the beginning of each diary entry did foretell the mood of the entry to follow and of what must’ve been going on in Tchulkaturin’s heart. Good read, but a bit superfluous...

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