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November 18, 2018 has come and gone and I can't believe that my five year anniversary date with the Classics Club has come around s...

"Alexey Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner of our district, who became notorious in h...

"Long ago there was a little land, over which ruled a regulus or kinglet, who was called King Peter, though his kingdom was but littl...

Sigh!  I usually get excited about the Classics Club Spin but this time, between my failures to finish my last spins and the load of books I...

"Inside the great building of the Law Courts, during the interval in the hearing of the Melvinsky case, the members of the judicial c...

I was going to resist the spin this time.  I have too many books on the go and too many of them are atrociously difficult, or inordinately h...

“My soul would sing of metamorphoses. but since, o gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your ...

"My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton." What on earth have I just read?  This book ...