It's been quite a while!

I've taken a hiatus for the past- who knows how long. Apologies all around. It won't happen again.

Well, my classics group has not been such a success either. After My Antonia we chose Dr. Zhivago with high hopes, which were shortly completely dashed. I think one of the four of us made it through. It was heavy on philosophy and light on plot, and dull at that- that was our conclusion. Where was the story of Dr. Zhivago and his two women? Only in the movie version, which we watched at our meeting. Onwards and upward then to something completely different - Kidnapped by Robert Lewis Stevenson. Ahhh, finally, a rousing pick. A rollicking, swaggering, pirate, outlaw-being-hunted-through-the-mountains-and-moors-of-Scotland adventure. I love Stevenson's writing-sophisticated, vivid and readable. And half of the fun of the book is reading some of the accent-laden sentences out loud to yourself. All the sudden I found myself speaking in a Scotttish brogue! How exciting! Seriously, it was a fun read. I really enjoyed it and proved to myself that classics don't have to be BORING.

Next up is my HNS review book, Cardigan Bay by John Kerr, an espionage thriller/romance. We shall see :-)