Congratulations to all who participated in the 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along! We began with Roots by Alex Haley, followed by Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, and finished just today with the great white whale itself, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Whether you read all three with us or joined us for one or two, I'm glad … Continue reading 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along Wrap-Up
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Announcing the 2026 Leo Tolstoy Chapter-a-Day Read-Along
Welcome to the official sign-up post for the 2026 Leo Tolstoy Chapter-a-Day Read-Along. This will be the ninth year of our chapter-a-day tradition, and for the first time since our 2020 reading of War and Peace, we are returning to one of literature’s most powerful voices: Leo Tolstoy. In past years we’ve read epics of … Continue reading Announcing the 2026 Leo Tolstoy Chapter-a-Day Read-Along
2024 Read-Along Wrap-Ups
We've come to the end of 2024, and that means it's time wrap up two different read-alongs, the Aubrey/Maturin Chapter-a-Week 4 Year Read-Along Odyssey and the 2024 Fantasy Classics Chapter-a-Day Read-Along. The Aubrey/Maturin Series The Aubrey/Maturin Read-Along lasted four years, from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2024. In those four years we read all 209 … Continue reading 2024 Read-Along Wrap-Ups
Announcing the 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along
Welcome to the official sign-up post for the 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along. This year we will be reading some of the most important and beloved works of American literature, including two Pulitzer Prize winners and a book that some call "the great American novel." This is the eighth year of the chapter-a-day read-along, and in … Continue reading Announcing the 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along
George Eliot Chapter-a-Day Read-along Wrap-Up
Today marks the end of our year-long reading of nearly all of George Eliot's novels. By reading a chapter a day, we finished Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. Looking back over the past year, I have to admit that this year's challenge was more difficult for … Continue reading George Eliot Chapter-a-Day Read-along Wrap-Up
Preparing for the 2024 Chapter-a-Day Read-along: The Chronicles of Narnia
The 2024 Fantasy Classics Chapter-a-Day Read-along begins in just a couple of days and it’s time to get ready to enter our first fantastical world, the enchanted land of Narnia. I hope you've been able to track down a copy of The Chronicles of Narnia either in the single volume edition or as a box … Continue reading Preparing for the 2024 Chapter-a-Day Read-along: The Chronicles of Narnia
Announcing the 2024 Fantasy Classics Chapter-a-Day Read-Along
Welcome to the official sign-up post for a very special 2024 Chapter-a-Day Read-along! This year we we will be reading some of the most beloved modern classics in all of literature: The Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, and the entire Harry Potter series. All three series are in the top ten of the … Continue reading Announcing the 2024 Fantasy Classics Chapter-a-Day Read-Along
Middlemarch: Preparing for the 2023 George Eliot Chapter-a-Day Read-along
The George Eliot Chapter-a-Day Read-along continues this week with a book that some call the greatest novel in the English language, Middlemarch: A Study in Provincial Life. I have wanted to read Middlemarch for many years, having started it several times, but I was never able to make it very far. A book like Middlemarch … Continue reading Middlemarch: Preparing for the 2023 George Eliot Chapter-a-Day Read-along
Musketeer Chapter-a-Day Read-along Wrap-up
It's been over fourteen months since we first began our journey with D'Artagnan and the rest of his musketeer friends, and today we reach the end of their story. Even though I finished my first reading of the series just three years ago, I still enjoyed reading it again, especially getting to revisit such interesting … Continue reading Musketeer Chapter-a-Day Read-along Wrap-up
Preparing for the 2023 George Eliot Chapter-a-Day Read-along: Adam Bede
The 2023 George Eliot Chapter-a-Day Read-along begins in just two days with Eliot's first novel, Adam Bede. Mary Ann Evans wrote Adam Bede when she was close to 40 years old. She had already been fairly successful as a non-fiction writer, translator, and editor up to that time, but she had resolved to become a … Continue reading Preparing for the 2023 George Eliot Chapter-a-Day Read-along: Adam Bede