Toni’s Comments (group member since Dec 30, 2012)

Toni’s comments from the Classics Without All the Class group.

I'm working through Edith Wharton's "The Muse's Tragedy and Other Short Stories." I'm loving it so far. And in conjunction with "Age of Innocence," I'm getting a good feel for her writing style.

Thanks for sharing this article! I agree with Smith that we ignore the past too much; one curse of being human is that we forget easily. Classics are there to remind us, and many books of this hour will someday serve to remind us, too.

I'm excited for The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson. I wasn't aware of most of these books, but now that I am, I think my to-read shelf is going to grow.

I'm Toni, and I teach writing at a couple universities in Utah, though Colorado will always be home. I have a graduate degree in English and I miss school and talking about books with other bookish people! My specialty in school was YA lit, so most of my favorite authors write in that category, but I also love the traditional classics. In fact, if my life were ideal, it would involve a lot of YA books that are re-tellings or re-imaginings of the classics. My most recent favorite is Diana Peterfreund's "For Darkness Shows the Stars," which is a scifi re-imagining of Jane Austen's "Persuasion."

If I could time travel, I would go to the future so that I could, essentially, live science fiction. :)