Preparing for the 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along: Moby-Dick

As the sun sets on our reading of Lonesome Dove, we prepare for the final read-along of the year, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. I am so excited to finally reach this part of the year, because Moby-Dick is one of my desert-island books and I can't wait to start reading it again. But just as it … Continue reading Preparing for the 2025 American Masterpieces Chapter-a-Day Read-Along: Moby-Dick

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