Today I am pleased to host Christina Pilz who shares her obsession with Victorian era workhouses. My obsession, since the age of seven or so, has been with workhouses and I’m not sure why. I mean, you wouldn’t ever want to end up there, as workhouses are always, nearly always, nasty, dark, and grim. And […]
Whitney: Welcome, Syrie James! I’m so happy you stopped by as part of the Jane Austen’s First Love Holiday Blog Tour. Syrie: Thanks for having me, Whitney. I’m excited to be here. Whitney: You must be excited about your new book, too: Jane Austen’s First Love. Syrie: I am! It was such fun to write […]
Today I am happy to host Karen Chase, author of Polio Boulevard who is sharing how her illness of Polio helped shape her imagination. As a tiny girl, my mother took me on the train from the suburbs of New York into the city where I took painting lessons in the basement of the Metropolitan […]
I am happy to announce my guest poster of the day, Emily from Classics and Beyond a well written, insightful blog with a focus on classic literature. Today Emily will be discussing what else, classic literature. Hi, I’m Emily. I’m an English major. I was homeschooled. Bottom line?I love the classics. It’s rather an addiction. […]
Anya from On Starships and Dragonwings is guest posting today with a wonderful review of, Of Poseidon by Anna Banks! I discovered her blog a few months ago and love her bullet-point reviewing style, so without further ado here is her review. I’ve seen a lot of mixed reviews for Of Poseidon by Anna Banks and had […]
My first guest poster this month is Michelle, from The True Book Addict (which just celebrated its 4th birthday). She is an extremely organized blogger with illuminating thoughts on all genres, exhibited with this extremely educational and interesting write-up on William Wallace. I blog primarily at The True Book Addict which is a book […]
I will be MIA this month. My brother is getting married on the 17th. My family is very, very excited about this but with all the happy hectics that comes with a wedding, I will be an absentee blogger. Way back in June, I had a call out for guest bloggers, keeping the blog active […]
My brother will be getting married in August. The beginning of said month will be crazy, thinking about bouquets rather than books. Thus I plan on being absent from my blog. What is a blogger to do? I thought, and thought and came up with an answer, guest posters! I would love it if any […]
Today I have a guest post by Samantha from The Little Munchkin Reader sharing how she discovered Jane Austen and how it impacted her. The works of Miss Jane Austen have entered into readers lives in different ways. For some it was from watching a short movie clip and for others it was reading […]