tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972764383963459152.post5059211695005932637..comments2023-05-30T07:00:13.707-04:00Comments on Bookphilia.com: Bookphilia.com turns 4 today!Bookphiliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05155882653615842141noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972764383963459152.post-61003708571219491002011-04-08T22:46:45.077-04:002011-04-08T22:46:45.077-04:00Amateur Reader: My comprehensive exams were in 16t...Amateur Reader: My comprehensive exams were in 16th-17th century drama, and I've taken only two Vic Lit courses (The Brontes and George Eliot) so everything I've listed here is new territory, even if the authors aren't.<br /><br />Ying: Yes, better get Wolf Hall done before the mini-you arrives...otherwise, I can't see there being time for at least 15 years.<br /><br />Thanks all, again, for the good wishes. I'm going to try hard not to abandon the ol' blog now that I'm gainfully employed again. :)Bookphiliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05155882653615842141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972764383963459152.post-56006598737132210532011-04-08T08:43:12.378-04:002011-04-08T08:43:12.378-04:00Congratulations Colleen ... may the coming year be...Congratulations Colleen ... may the coming year be a better one for you. Love your Victorian plan - particularly since you've included one of my very favourite poets, Gerard Manley Hopkins.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972764383963459152.post-44269329831295055662011-04-06T22:01:01.341-04:002011-04-06T22:01:01.341-04:00congrats on four years-your blog is always a sour...congrats on four years-your blog is always a source of inspiration to meMel uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972764383963459152.post-23498907398452705252011-03-30T14:25:28.793-04:002011-03-30T14:25:28.793-04:00I'm late to the party, but congrats on 4 years...I'm late to the party, but congrats on 4 years! I look forward to 5.0 and you Victorian reading.Stefaniehttp://somanybooksblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972764383963459152.post-62496837289540347382011-03-28T22:12:40.375-04:002011-03-28T22:12:40.375-04:00Happy blog-versary! (I'm secretly happy about ...Happy blog-versary! (I'm secretly happy about the commute, too.)J.G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02806805528636359436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972764383963459152.post-25733368914519702652011-03-28T11:05:14.017-04:002011-03-28T11:05:14.017-04:00Congratulations! 4 years of interesting, funny, th...Congratulations! 4 years of interesting, funny, thoughtful content is about 400 in blog years. And thanks for the reminder that I really do need to get going on Wolf Hall.Y S Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16870616903273903805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972764383963459152.post-61035798642190330602011-03-26T23:30:14.164-04:002011-03-26T23:30:14.164-04:00That list looks like fun. I mean, most of it look...That list looks like fun. I mean, most of it looks like fun. I've only read 19 of 'em myself. Working on Tennyson now.<br /><br />I wouldn't presume to add - for one thing, I assume that "omissions" (e.g., Lewis Carooll, <i>Jane Eyre</i>, etc.) are mostly books you have read and are not dying to re-read right now, or ever.<br /><br />I wouldn't want to just repeat your orals list! Or was that all 16th & 17th century stuff?Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972764383963459152.post-31334674120650463042011-03-26T22:39:08.167-04:002011-03-26T22:39:08.167-04:00Happy blog-versary!Happy blog-versary!The above fore-mentioned.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04604066213359160314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972764383963459152.post-53199977716533314192011-03-26T19:53:14.624-04:002011-03-26T19:53:14.624-04:00Here's the list of Vic Lit I've compiled f...Here's the list of Vic Lit I've compiled for myself:<br /><br />1. Charles Dickens (1812-70): Barnaby Rudge (1841)<br /><br />2. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865): Mary Barton (1848)<br /><br />3. W.M. Thackeray (1811-63): Vanity Fair (1848)<br /><br />4. Thackeray: The History of Henry Esmond (1852)<br /><br />5. Charlotte Bronte (1816-55): Villette (1853)<br /><br />6. Dickens: Bleak House (1853)<br /><br />7. Gaskell: North and South (1855)<br /><br />8. Anthony Trollope (1815-82): The Warden (1855)<br /><br />9. Robert Browning (1812-89): Men and Women (1855)<br /><br />10. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61): Aurora Leigh (1856)<br /><br />11. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-92): Idylls of the King (1859)<br /><br />12. Ellen Wood (1814-87): East Lynne (1861)<br /><br />13. Christina Rosetti (1830-94): Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)<br /><br />14. Wilkie Collins (1824-89): No Name (1862)<br /><br />15. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915): Aurora Floyd (1863)<br /><br />16. Charles Kingsley (1819-75): The Water Babies (1863)<br /><br />17. Sheridan le Fanu (1814-73): Uncle Silas (1864)<br /><br />18. Gaskell: Wives and Daughter (1865)<br /><br />19. Collins: Armadale (1866)<br /><br />20. Margaret Oliphant (1828-97): Miss Marjoribanks (1866)<br /><br />21. Trollope: The Claverings (1867)<br /><br />22. Matthew Arnold (1822-88): The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (random placement)<br /><br />23. Browning: The Ring and the Book (1869)<br /><br />24. le Fanu: The Wyvern Mystery (1869)<br /><br />25. George Eliot (1819-80): Middlemarch (1872)<br /><br />26. le Fanu: In a Glass Darkly (1872)<br /><br />27. Samuel Butler (1835-1902): Erewhon (1872)<br /><br />28. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)<br /><br />29. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89): The Major Works (random placement)<br /><br />30. Trollope: Phineas Redux (1874)<br /><br />31. Trollope: The Prime Minister (1876)<br /><br />32. Eliot: Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879)<br /><br />33. George Meredith (1828-1909): The Egoist (1879)<br /><br />34. Trollope: The Duke’s Children (1880)<br /><br />35. Charles Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909): A Century of Roundels (1883)<br /><br />36. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94): Kidnapped (1886)<br /><br />37. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930): A Study in Scarlet (1887)<br /><br />38. Stevenson: The Master of Ballantrae (1889)<br /><br />39. George Gissing (1857-1903): New Grub Street (1891)<br /><br />40. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): The Decay of Lying and Other Essays (1891)<br /><br />41. Gissing: The Odd Women (1893)<br /><br />42. George du Maurier (1834-96): Trilby (1894)<br /><br />43. Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)<br /><br />My plan is to read these mostly in chronological order, but will make exception for Trollope's Palliser novels, as I've already read the first three.Bookphiliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05155882653615842141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972764383963459152.post-66785845949490974062011-03-26T19:50:55.615-04:002011-03-26T19:50:55.615-04:00chasingbawa: Thank you, thank you. A Game of Thron...chasingbawa: Thank you, thank you. A Game of Thrones is even more soap operish than I realized when I wrote this post...and I'm enjoying it more and more. I've actually come down with a terrible cold and it's been perfect sickday reading. :)<br /><br />Amateur Reader: Yes! Take a look at the list of books I plan to read below and tell me if I'm missing anything obvious. And please don't make me read Carlyle.<br /><br />Interpolations: Thankee! You've kept me going at key points this year!!<br /><br />heidenkind: It is, sort of. I hope I can keep 'er going.<br /><br />Rohan: You also can check out my list below and tell me if I'm missing anything obvious. If you also don't make me read Carlyle, I will be eternally grateful.<br /><br />As for the job, yes, I am excited about it. :)Bookphiliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05155882653615842141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972764383963459152.post-21823377149074868742011-03-26T13:45:58.784-04:002011-03-26T13:45:58.784-04:00Happy 4th! Of course, I too am a big fan of your r...Happy 4th! Of course, I too am a big fan of your reading project--and happy to pitch in, if there's any way I can!--but at the same time I think it's a good thing to let your reading go where it wants to. Structure helps with some things, but if it starts to take the fun out...well, you already went to graduate school, so no need to say more!<br /><br />Also, congratulations on starting a new job. I hope it's something you feel excited about!Rohan Maitzenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12111722115617352412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972764383963459152.post-81603356480585741802011-03-26T13:33:01.150-04:002011-03-26T13:33:01.150-04:00Wow, 4 years of blogging! That's a loooong tim...Wow, 4 years of blogging! That's a loooong time.Heidenkindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09494625457587427781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972764383963459152.post-31239525469660692262011-03-26T13:11:14.935-04:002011-03-26T13:11:14.935-04:004! Amazing. And congrats. Just wonderful. Cheers. ...4! Amazing. And congrats. Just wonderful. Cheers. K.Interpolationshttp://interpolations.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972764383963459152.post-78942927293816053402011-03-26T10:23:43.409-04:002011-03-26T10:23:43.409-04:00Now there's a project I can get behind. Let m...Now there's a project I can get behind. Let me know if I can be encouraging in any way.<br /><br />Congratulations on the extraordinary longevity.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972764383963459152.post-33256209887323337272011-03-26T09:29:55.611-04:002011-03-26T09:29:55.611-04:00Congratulations on 4 years of blogging and your ne...Congratulations on 4 years of blogging and your new job! A very interesting list you have there, very mixed. And I do agree that GRRM work is one big soap opera:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com