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Emma by Jane Austen

3.5

I found this audio drama an easy way to enjoy  Jane Austen’s Emma. The production sounds a touch dated but I like how the script uses narration to bridge scenes of dialogues, and after an hour (of roughly 5.2 hours) I warmed to this. The 3.5⭐ is for this audiobook’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, starring Angharad Rees. 

The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath by

4.0

Eleven essays written by eleven different contributors discuss Sylvia Plath's writing. Before reading this, I read two biographies, Plath’s abridged journal and looked through her poetry and also her letters, along with another read of the The Bell Jar. Without this, some of the essays would have been harder to follow. Overall, an informative read.

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

4.0

When Libby delivered this, I was really pleased. I had reserved this a year ago, and I’m glad I did as I wasn’t sure how to approach and read the full version that was written over a millennium ago and is 1000 pages. However, listening to this has helped a lot. 

Ringworld by Larry Niven

3.0

I listened to the audiobook. The comedy is a surprise, this isn’t perfect, the characters are flat especially the women, but there are some interesting parts to it. 

Color Index by Jim Krause

2.5

lots of interesting ideas but was disappointed that many of the colours I tried out didn't match.

The World's Greatest Art by Robert James Belton

4.0

My ed, is portable and covers a wide range of art from around the world from 13thC onwards. Each work comes with a description and a good-sized colour image.   

Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

dark tense

3.0

Second read, and I found this Shakespeare play easier to read than the others, I think it’s because it has a smaller cast. I found this to be a fascinating read, and in some ways brave but then (to me anyway) it lost its nerve. But this is okay, in how the plot unfolds I’m thinking back in Shakespeare’s day the audience would have related to this play as a comedy. 

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

3.0

 I enjoyed coming back and reading this. Yeah, the plot is predictable for me but it’s build-up and its central mystery were just as intriguing. The story does pick up for me, and though I knew what came, I still wanted Mary to escape. 

The Modern Classics Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

informative

The edition I read is by Penguin translated by Justin O'Brien added more context with an Afterword by James Wood. 

The main essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, makes an interesting read, it has also so far left me with the clearest understanding of the idea of the absurd. All six essays have these moments of wonderful descriptions that made this an enjoyable read. 

A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

dark reflective sad

4.0

I’m left speechless, my first response is the four stories that make this mini collection are sad as they are beautiful in how they each show the human condition. 

The four stories are: First Sorrow; Little Women; A Hunger-Artist; and Josefine the singer, or the Mouse People