Happy Birthday, Anthony Trollope! It’s Weekend, Let’s Read! & A New Series by Katie Lumsden

Anthony Trollope was born on this day in 1815. I’ve only read five novels and a short story collection. I’m on the fifth volume of Chronicles of Barsetshire and I’m loving it so much that my recommendation for this weekend goes for the first volume in the series.

The Warden – Read or download at Project Gutenberg, if you have a Kobo, I recommend the Standard Ebooks version. Librivox also has three versions in audiobook, if you prefer. It’s the smallest of the series and maybe not the most loved, but I do recommend starting with it.

If you like satirical dystopian, you can go for The Fixed Period, that I recommended before.

Katie Lumsden is making a new series about Trollope, after reading all the 47 novels and the first episode (10 Reasons to Read Anthony Trollope) is out now on her YouTube channel. I watched it yesterday and it was a delight. And although I didn’t read much Trollope yet, I can relate with all these reasons (just from the Barsetshire Chronicles).

It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Anthony Trollope’s Sci-Fi #Victober #ProjectGutenberg – #books you can read right here, right now, no excuses 😍

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Born on this Day: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Hope she enjoys that cake....)

Happy birthday, Harriet !

Celebrating with a short article on her time with the Semi-Colon Club:
https://www.talesfromthepennybloods.org/post/harriet-beecher-stowe-the-woman-behind-uncle-tom-s-cabin

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#books shipping to new homes this morning.

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Today’s birthday boy is William Makepeace Thackeray, born in Kolkata, India, author of social satires such as Vanity Fair, Pendennis, & many more.

“Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
(W.M.Thackeray, Sketches and Travels in London; Mr. Brown's Letters to his Nephew: "On Tailoring — And Toilettes in General", 1856)

Happy Birthday, Thackeray!

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