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Book-a-Day Challenge

Day Five: Quintessentially british

There's so many books that could fit this category, it's very hard to choose. So i'm keeping only my favorites, even though it's at the cost of originality...

British humor:

The Jeeves books (the complete serie) by P.G Wodehouse

British detectives:

The complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. 

British Period Drama: 

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Children books:

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

British sci-fi/fantasy:

1984 by Georges Orwell

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Day three: On my Chrismas list

I'm not celebrating Christmas and since  most of my family think i have too much books and should sell them, this list is basically just me treating myself when i feel like i need some comfort or deserve it, or when i have money and sometimes also when i don't have money....

I read books in french almost exclusively (keeping english for articles) by choice. Unfortunately, we have in my country a law which imposes on all retailers a unique price for books. Consequently, books cost a lot here and there's never sales...Which is why i love secondhand shops.

The complete Peanuts Vol 3 By Charles M. Schulz

The war commentaries/ The war broadcasts by Georges Orwell

The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri 

The complete work of P.G Wodehouse vol 2

The new edition of Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe and the rest of his trilogy (No longer at ease and Arrow of God)

The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz

The wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Endgame by Samuel Beckett

Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters  vol 1 by George Orwell

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Book-a-Day Challenge

Day one: Iconic first line

 "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair".

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

Very close second: 

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen".

George Orwell, 1984 (1949)

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#BookADay / 30. Would save if my house burned down

The World’s Greatest Letters, by M. Lincoln Schuster

I love flipping through this book, landing on a random letter, and just hearing what people had to say in a time when letters were one of the only ways of communicating with your loved ones. My favorite letters by far are the love letters, because you can just hear the emotion and passion the writers are putting into their words. So, in case of a fire, while my arms would be filled with books, I can guarantee you that this beautiful book would be at the top of that stack.