Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: Prior to reading Jane Eyre I had never read a Gothic novel and was a thrilling experience. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank: Heart wrenching, a book everyone should read just once. One True Thing by Anna Quindlen: Discuses Mercy […]
Alice is your typical teen-aged girl. She worries that she is too fat. She wants a boyfriend: “I wish I were popular and beautiful and wealthy and talented.” She frequently makes resolutions in her diary to do better in school, work toward a better relationship with her mother, and lose weight. Her life changes when […]
Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish Mr. Darcy: He has a hard facade, but has a heart of gold and is a great letter writer. (who doesn’t love a good love letter). Rhett Butler: Everyone loves a bad boy, but like Mr. Darcy he also has a heart of gold. Heathcliff: Yes yes I […]
Currently Reading: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin What I read in March: Splintered by A.G. Howard Janie Face to Face by Caroline B. Cooney Snow White by Brothers Grimm Fairest by Gail Carson Levine Snow Whyte and the Queen of Mayhem by Melissa Lemon Snow in […]
Snow in Summer, (which is actually the poor girl’s name) begins with the burial site of her mother and stillborn brother. Her father is distraught, and any happiness Snow may have had is over with her widowed father going into a five year depression. Every evening, Daddy goes to his wife’s grave site and one […]
I completed three challenges in March and decided that instead creating three separate posts I’m globing them into one. Young Adult Reading Challenge hosted by My Overstuffed Bookshelf My Level: The Mini YA Reading Challenge – Read 12 Young Adult novels. 1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling2. Farmer Boy by Laura […]
Snow Whyte and the Queen of Mayhem is an interesting take on the classic Snow White because it is told from the Magic Mirror’s perspective, looking over Snow White like an overprotective Father. As a baby Snow White, or Cat as she is known in this rendition flees from the Evil Queen with her oh […]
Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish In not particular order: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: the best intellectual romance out there. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: Beautiful vivid writing with an engrossing, epic story Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn: I love anything by this author but this in particular has great […]
Since the beginning of the year, I have been thinking about doing “weekly wrap-ups” and just haven’t been able to make up my mind. Despite the fact that I have seen It’s Monday, What Are You Reading posts (hosted by Sheila at Book Journey) I’ve finally decided to partake and use the meme as my weekly wrap-up […]
Fanda at Fanda Classiclit is hosting a month long event in April to celebrate Emile Zola — Zoladdiction. Emile Zola is an author I have heard about but not yet tried. I blame his daunting Les Rougon-Macquart. Anyway, I’ve decided to join in, and there are three levels to play along. 1st level: Maheude (reading 1 book) 2nd level: Gervaise (reading […]