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Classic Lit: a Nerd's Eye View

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Classic lit is a way of life for my husband and me.  You know you're a little obsessive when you have at least one conversation a day that starts with "You won't believe what happened to Scout today!" or some such thing.  If you are a nerd you know that I was referring to Scout Finch, a fictional young lady from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.  If you are not a nerd then you might have come to the wrong place...

Have a little fun walking around my world - where reality slips away and you find yourself greeting old friends like Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Dickens - or making new acquaintances with those you've heard of, but never sat down with before.

Enjoy...

Classic Authors

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Check out the these links to find out specifics on some of my favorite classic authors.
Jane Austen
Books, Bio, Quotes and Links!
Charles Dickens
Books, Bio, Quotes and Links!
Ernest Hemingway
Books, Bio, Quotes and Links!
John Steinbeck
Books, Bio, Quotes and Links!

What are Funsocksgirl & her Hubby Reading?

We're always reading something...I personally have a rule: one book at a time. This is because if I start more than one I forget what characters go to what book and then I pick the one I like better and read it all...and three books later one from the first pair is still sitting around waiting to be finished.
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Literary Linkage

Bibliomania
Bibliomania has thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays all of which are absolutely free.
Literature.org
A free online literature library.
BookCrossing
Share your favorite books with the world...
Lit Quotes
Quotes from the classics: approved.
CliffsNotes
Don't just read the book - get to know it.
Spark Notes
Another great resource for knowing your lit.

This month's author of choice: WASHINGTON IRVING

One of the first Americans to actually attempt to and succeed at making a living solely from writing!
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  • California_Dreamin Mar 20, 2009 @ 10:46 am | delete
    Classic lens. I run a language school in Japan, and I always encourage my students to read fiction. Some of my more advanced students are reading Hemingway and Steinbeck, but the two authors that most of the students seem to enjoy the most are E.B. White and Roald Dahl--which is fine by me because they are also two of my favorites.
  • Agent13 Oct 12, 2007 @ 4:56 pm | delete
    I think chicks dig book nerds. One of life's little mysteries. I'm crazy about Dickens now, having read Tale of Two and Bleak House back to back. Reading David Copperfield at the moment, and loving it! Seems like listening in on an angel talking about humans, so compassionate! Glad I found you.
  • ForeignFilmFanatic Aug 27, 2007 @ 2:25 pm | delete
    I'm a big reader too, and majoring in English Literature in college. Very nice lens, I gave it 5*. Hope you'll visit my Foreign Films Frenzy lens too!
  • oniyagi Oct 27, 2006 @ 2:07 pm | delete
    Old books are great, they give off a pheromone, as it were, that just drives me into this fit of spending money :)
  • funsocksgirl Sep 12, 2006 @ 12:32 pm | delete
    Ooooh don't even get me started on the smells - it's an integral part of choosing any book. New books with that crip clean scent...used books with their musty smell just begging you to read them...
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