Category Archives: Books I Ought to Read

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Posted on September 24, 2017 by bookbii

My challenge towards the end of the year is to read some of those books I bought with lofty ideals in mind only to place them on my shelf like so much high-brow decoration. When I first conceived of this … Continue reading →

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Books I Ought to Read No.5: Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Posted on August 25, 2017 by bookbii

I have, for the longest time, been intending to get around to reading Old Goriot, but as usual never quite got around to it. It seems I am not alone. When I took my secondhand copy, an old Caxton Edition … Continue reading →

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Books I Ought to Read No. 4: The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Posted on November 30, 2016 by bookbii

“One of these days,” she said, “I’m going to pull myself together for a while and think – try to determine what character of a woman I am; for candidly, I don’t know. By all those codes which I am … Continue reading →

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Books I Ought to Read No. 3: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Posted on November 2, 2016 by bookbii

I’ve tried to read The House of Mirth before. It wasn’t really a very serious attempt; I started reading and thought ‘this is interesting’ and then put it down and read something else. After my last books I ought to … Continue reading →

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Books I Ought to Read: No. 2 – The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Posted on September 25, 2016 by bookbii

I had this idea a while ago that I really ought to get around to those books I ought to read. You know the ones: the classic ones that you (by you I mean I) buy and then stick on … Continue reading →

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Books I Ought to Read: No. 1 – Howards End by E. M. Forster

Posted on August 21, 2016 by bookbii

Shortly before I went on my summer holiday I was thinking about reading. Well, I am often thinking about reading: what I want to read, what I want to review, the kinds of books I want to be exposed to; … Continue reading →

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