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Starting this year I will try to read more of Zola's short stories, as I have read all but one of the Rougon-Macquart series...

🎭 Who would have thought that years after reading Little Women (which I found flat and too stereotypical), I would be fascinated by Louisa...

✉ As hinted by the title, this book (originally titled Lettres de mon moulin ) consists of short stories, written as letters addressed to a...

👗 The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) is one of my favorites from Zola. It is less "raw" than the others in Rougon-M...

🌳 Rural Hours is a journal written by 19th century female author: Susan Fenimore Cooper. If you feel familiar with her surname, it's b...

  💙 Little House in the Big Woods is the one that started the series of nine autobiographical novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, bas...

🌳 Because I love nature, it's only natural that I tend to be attracted to books where nature poses as dominant aspect. The Woodlanders...

🎄 Sir John Penlyon is a wealthy landowner. He became a cantankerous, hard hearted old man after the death of, first, his wife, ...

✍🏼 Elizabeth von Arnim, neé Mary Annette Beauchamp was born in Australia. But then she married a German Count, and moved to Na...

The Seagull is my second Chekhov's play. The Cherry Orchard is the first - and I loved it - and that's why somehow I...

💜 For a Night of Love is a collection of three stories with one similar theme: love. But, this is from Zola, so don't expe...

💰 If I have to categorize Dickens' novels into favorites and non favorites, then Martin Chuzzlewit would definitely go to ...

🎄 The Nutcracker is famously known as a Christmas classic, both as children tale, and ballet. I have been ignorant of it, thou...

🌸 Lady Windermere is a woman with puritan upbringing. Despite living in the corrupted society (where it is common for married m...

👒 Lady Audley's Secret is the most famous novel of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It was labelled a sensation novel, because of ...

🔅 The story is set in a fictional heath called Egdon. It's mostly about misperceptions and misplace. 🔅 Eustacia Vye was ...

♦️ It's one of the hardest reads for me. Is it because I've read it during one of the toughest phases of my life? Or is...

I read The Sin of Abbé Mouret for the first time three years ago, in Zoladdiction 2018. If you want to know what the story'...

Two weeks ago is supposed to be the last weekly part of our Nicholas Nickleby Readalong 202 1. However, for some reasons (strain...

Since this is my second read, I won't write much on what the story is about - this you can read in my first review of The Co...