The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

January 7th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Synopsis:
The theft of a rare diamond from India throws an upper class family and their servants into disarray and suspicion.
Review:
Published in 1868 and taking place from 1847-48, The Moonstone is one of my selections for the Winter Classics Challenge and the Chunkster Challenge. I knew that it was the first novel to introduce the [...]

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2007 Chunkster Challenge

December 17th, 2006 · No Comments

Since I’m already doing the classics challenge, I might as well do this one. I’ll be reading Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone. The Superfast Reader is not intimidated by long books, but she is intimidated by long books with dense prose in genres that are not her favorite.
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2007 Winter Classics Challenge

December 8th, 2006 · 2 Comments

How could the Superfast Reader not be excited about this? Reading bloggers have been invited to read 5 classics in the months of January and February, courtesy of A Reader’s Journey.
My five, culled from my BookMooch stack:
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis [...]

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