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“Procrastination is the thief of time”

Due to my Sharpe fixation in August, I now have only four weeks to read the entirety of David Copperfield before we meet up for book club. From “I am born” through “A last retrospect” is 715 pages in my Barnes & Noble Classics edition. Turns out, though, this is a perfect time for Dickens’s [...]

Posted 31 August 2008 † nickyp § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Long live Sharpe

In the past six weeks, I’ve blown through more than 20 of the Richard Sharpe books by Bernard Cornwell (holding off on the 1820-set one to use as incentive to meet my page goals this month).  Wow. Rollicking adventure, tight serial plotting and continuing characters who grow (somewhat). I read them in historical order, marveling [...]

Posted 30 August 2008 † nickyp § Writing ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , ,

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