What a fun listen! This might be my favorite Great Course I've taken, but then, I'm a big Jane Austen fan. I learned a lot about her life and family, her early works, and also about the culture and era in which she wrote. (For instance: I had no idea that "regency" actually referred to a discrete ...
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Unequal Affection: A Pride and Prejudice Retelling
This was almost as enjoyable as the original! The author really captured the characters of Elizabeth and Darcy, as well as all of the supporting cast. This felt like an alternate-universe take on what might have happened, had Elizabeth not immediately rejected Darcy when he first proposed. The story ...
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The Black Pearl, Scott O’Dell
A fun, quick adventure story set in (I gathered) turn-of-the-century Mexico, this read like an English lit pick from high school representing the conflict of man vs nature, or man vs creature or monster.
Ramon grows up diving for pearls, and helping his father to polish and sell them. He's heard ...
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Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
I've found that I cannot read history--I have to listen to it, for the pacing to work for me. (I'm sure this says bad things about my attention span. I can pay very careful attention indeed to scientific minutiae, though! Just... not history.) So when I switched from Kindle to audible on this one, I ...
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The Thirteenth Fairy
This was a mostly proverbial middle grade read. Filomina is a bookish middle school girl with no friends and overprotective parents. She's obsessed with the Never After book series, supposed to be the "real" versions of all of the world's most famous fairy tales. But on the day that the final book ...
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A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
I tried to listen to this once before, but it was read by the author, and there was something about her voice that just really didn't do it for me.
I found a physical copy at a library sale, though, and it's such a classic, and it's supposed to be about quantum physics besides (which I love--and ...
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