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Writing by Jan Vermeer
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January: “I don’t know why it takes me
so long to read one of Ernest Hemingway’s masterpieces: The Old Man and The Sea.”
February: “Of all Dickens’ novel I
haven’t yet read, The Mystery of Edwin
Drood is perhaps one I’ve been looking forward the most.”
March: “This is perhaps my third
reading of Alexandre Dumas’ first installment of D’Artagnan Romances series: The Three Musketeers."
April: “If there is one thing I like
most from La Bête Humaine—besides the
story and what laid beneath it, of course—it is the beautiful way Zola wrote
the passages about La Lison’s adventures.”
May: “If there are books I would love
to read over and over again, The Great
Gatsby must be one of them.”
June: “Like Dante--‘midway upon the
journey of our life/I found myself within a forest dark…’—I too felt like being
plunged into darkness when I decided to read a narrative poem of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, end of last month.”
July: “For more than a week I have been
delving into Dante’s Purgatorio, and
this particular quote has been captured my mind.”
August: “Apparently, War and Peace still doesn’t stop to
amaze me till now.”
September: “There are so many plays I
had wanted to read for this last freebie month of Let’s Read Plays; but at the
end I picked George Bernard Shaw’s Saint
Joan.”
October: “After reading Hamlet, I can officially announce that
tragedy is my most favorite theme when it comes to plays.”
November: “The saddest moment of
hosting an event is…. when you have to end it. :(“
December: “As soon as I read the last
line, and closed the book for good, I could only think…how emotional David Copperfield is; it’s much more
intense than any other books I have read so far by Dickens.”
I am now
reading my last classic for 2013, but have already been eager to start 2014! :)
These are great lines! Maybe I'll try this. :) I also hope to read The Great Gatsby next year, as so many people recommend it.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea, because it makes us rewind our blogging progress in the year.
DeleteMost of my first line will be, "Hi, hi!".. But am interested to create one post like this too. We'll see :D
ReplyDeleteHaha...or perhaps you can skip the "Hi" and regard it as an opening template, so you can pick the full sentence after it. :)
DeleteI love this! It's a blogging journal of sorts, and a cute and fun way of picking up on your blog's yearly "mood", so to speak. I like the flow from one month to the next :)
ReplyDeleteYes, it helps me too in rewinding my blogging activities the whole year.
DeleteI love this meme--it tells me so much about you, what you read, what you like, what your posts are like (I like the chatty, reflective quality.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jane. At least it makes me realize how important first lines is...
DeleteThanks for posting your first lines -- I agree that it gives a sense of the whole year in blogging, somehow. Yours certainly shows that you focus on the classics, and get through many, many of them! My own post will be up this weekend -- I'm a bit behind!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, Melwyk! The meme is a great idea.
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