The Secret Garden is a novel of Mary Mary quite contrary, whose parents die due to cholera and is sent off to live with an uncle. The house is old, dusty and filled with secrets. At first we all learn to hate the little brat. Anywhose, a little bird tells Mary of a secret garden […]
Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish Top Eleven Favorite Kick-Ass Heroines (in no particular order) Lisbeth Salander — Lisbeth is the definition of bad-ass. Hacker by day, she has a quick reaction time and ways of digging up the dirt to her benefit; she also never puts on a good girl persona and is devilish […]
This book made me angry, I found there to be six victims in this story not three, and a vast miscarriage of justice. The West Memphis Three as they have been dubbed were guilty the minute they walked into the courtroom due to a biased jury and judge. Misskelley, who clearly has some learning disabilities […]
The Fairy Tale Read-a-Thon hosted by Debz at Debz Bookshelf starts today. I am super excited not only because I get to sit back and read fairy tales all week but also because this is the only read-a-thon I’ve been able to participate in this month. Anyway, no use crying over spilled milk. I’ve put […]
Top Ten Tuesday Hosted by The Broke and Bookish This week’s topic: your favorite authors in a specific genre, The only obvious answer to me is listing my favorite classic authors. In no particular order: 1. Jane Austen is three syllables A-Maz-Ing! I love her character’s quick wit and leading men. 2. Margaret Mitchell: Her chunkster, […]
Book One: We begin in Hobbiton, in preparation for Bilbo’s eleventy-first birthday, exhibiting all that is good, clean (and a little odd) in other words what is worth fighting for — a very clever and fun opening to a novel. Although the night slowly becomes dark from there. After Bilbo’s sudden disappearance and Frodo’s inheritance of […]
The Classics Club has put together a meme that totally reminds me of the song “Getting to know you” from The King and I Or for those not acquainted with Rodgers and Hammerstein a meme to introduce one’s self. 1. Your online name: I just go by my first name, Whitney 2. Your blog name (so we […]
That’s right, count em’ I’m participating in three read-a-thons in October. First up is the Frightful Fall Read-A-Thon one of the fabulous seasonal Thons hosted by Michelle from The True Book Addict She does an outstanding job with all her week-long read-a-thon events and can be signed up here Next, is Dewey’s wonderful 24 Hour […]
Bloggiesta is coming, (September 28-30th to be precise) and after looking at my blog discovered it is in dire need of cleaning. Bloggiesta is co-hosted by There’s a Book and Suey from It’s All About Books. If you decide to participate in the Fall 2012 edition you can expect: to spend time that weekend (as much or as little as […]
Summer has always been a slow blogging time for me but as the summer months come to a close I am ready to jump back into the blogging world! Here are two bookish events that will be filling the last months of the year for me. I started, half-heartedly to reread Gone with the Wind […]