Reading Rambo

DO YOU LOVE WILKIE COLLINS? Have you barely heard of him? Do you vaguely know him as Dickens's BFF and owner of a magnificent forehead? Starting June 14th, we will be reading Wilkie Collins: A Life of Sensation by Andrew Lycett. You can get a copy pretty much anywhere online, but I recommend AbeBooks or The Book Depository so you can get the version with the fun cover. 


It's not very long, so Wednesday, June 14th, we'll do intro posts, then split the book up into 4 readings and chat about how much we love Wilkie Collins and how he led a LIFE OF SENSATION. 

Signup below via Mr Linky and get your copy soon. WILKIE COLLINS FOR THE SUMMER.

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WILKIE COLLINS, patron saint of certain book bloggers, creator of Our Lady of Literature Marian Halcombe, and opium addict who kept multiple ladies around town. SIR. Could we ever forget Count Fosco? Miss Clack? The tiny mice? The presumed body in the lake? YOUR PENCHANT FOR LADIES' POSTERIORS?


Wilkie Collins is a joy and a Victorian treasure, and The Woman in White can never be read enough. This man is responsible for funny, fascinating, intelligent, ninja women (well, one woman) who tossed all of Dickens's blushing milksop 16-year-olds into the garbage heap of character-building where they so rightfully belong. (*quietly goes and gathers them all back up again because Dickens*)

Marian Halcombe is a debt that can never be repaid, because Wilkie Collins is long gone, but WE CAN PAY TRIBUTE and toss laurels at his imagined feet.