Items tagged "classics"

A Smorgasbord of the Supernatural

I am a scaredy cat and I enthusiastically avoid gruesome stories, whether in movies or in books. But I do love fantasy and pieces that flirt with the haunting realm of witches, vampires and ghosts. In the spirit of Halloween, things that go bump in the night and send a shiver down our collective spines, […]

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Reader, I Read Classics

The Talking Book Topics magazine is a great way to find up-to-date suggestions on the newest digital books in the LBPH collection, but you won’t find any of the Classics that I love in there. Outside of high school English classes, I’d never explored the oldies-but-goodies. I was more of a young-adult sci-fi fantasy romance […]

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Candide, or Optimism

Do you think that we live in the best of all possible worlds? I don’t. And neither did Voltaire. Although written in the 18th century, his novel Candide, or Optimism (DB31736) is still relevant as if it was written today. It is a satire on the current state of the world and the problem of free […]

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