Tag: reading challenge
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Shakespeare in a Year: March
In March I have read the following Shakespeare works: Going forward, I’m tweaking my commitment a bit. At the beginning I said I intended to read all of Shakespeare’s works this year. However, especially when it comes to the plays, I don’t think reading is necessarily the best course of action. Shakespeare wrote his plays […]
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Shakespeare in a Year: February
This post discusses the Shakespeare plays that I read in February 2023.
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Announcing Shakespeare in a Year
I’ve set a goal to read all of Shakespeare’s work in 2023. Why?
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Book #11 – Of One Blood
Content warning: violence, homicide, suicide, slavery, incest My eleventh book in the 2022 challenge is Of One Blood by Pauline Hopkins. The book satisfies Category 6, a novel written by a woman published before 1940. The book Reuel Briggs is a promising Harvard medical student. Unfortunately, he lacks both money and friends. Not helping matters […]
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Interlude – on failure and success
Has life ever gotten in the way of doing something you really wanted to do?