Classic Novellas Week Buddy Read: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton #NovNov
August in Review
August has been a very busy month here at 746 Books. Well, not so much on the blog at 746 Books, but in the real life of 746 Books! August was the final full month of 20 Books of Summer and I watched in envy as several participants tweeted details of their 20th review! What…
20 Books of Summer is back! Who’s in?
Oh I’m a glutton for punishment…. The temperature is rising (slightly), the kids will be getting out of school soon and I’ve done my Great Wardrobe Changeover (I’m not the only one who does that, am I?) so it must be nearly summer time, which means another attempt at completing my 20 Books of Summer…
Reading Roulette for May!
So, it’s been a full 6 months since I last did a Reading Roulette, which means it’s time once again to put my literary fate in your capable hands and ask you to pick one of my May reads from the 746! You’ve picked me some great winners in the past – Life After…
Happy New Year!
2014 has been a wonderful blogging year for me, finding my feet, finding my voice and unexpectedly finding a new audience and new online friends! I read more books than I planned to and stuck to my promise not to buy anything new. Amazing! I know 54 books out of 746 isn’t a great dent,…
I’m 1 today!
Today is my Blogversary! I’m quite surprised by this for several reasons, but the main one is that I’ve stuck at it for a year! I’ve started several blogs in the past, but never one with such a tight focus, so I’m pleased that I didn’t just give up. I did worry that because I…
No 702 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Oh Lily. Lily, Lily, Lily. Lily Bart, the protagonist of Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth might well be one of the most perplexing characters ever written. Is she a victim of circumstance and the hypocrisy of New York society at the turn of the twentieth century, or is she the willful agent of her own…
The 20 Books of Summer Challenge
When I started this blog, I had hoped that it would spur me on to read more regularly so I might just get through the 746 quicker than the 20 or so years I had originally anticipated. Six months on and my reading pace has only slightly improved and I’m still only averaging about…
No 721 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The first reference I ever heard relating to Ethan Frome came from one of my all time favourite movies, Grosse Pointe Blank when Martin Blank, killer for hire, runs into his old high-school English teacher and asks; Are you still, uh, you know, inflicting all that horrible Ethan Frome damage? Is that off the…
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