I can never resist a book about Reading, so when I saw The Heroine’s Bookshelf: Life Lessons, From Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder, I immediately added it to my Christmas wish list, and Ryan obligingly got it for me. :) Anyone with fond memories of the heroines that shaped their childhood (or adulthood) reading… Continue reading The Heroine’s Bookshelf by Erin Blakemore
Month: December 2010
Polysyllabic Spree – November 2010
Books Purchased: The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare As Always, Julia edited by Joan Reardon Brooklyn by Colm Toibin Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace Carney’s House Party by Maud Hart Lovelace Books Read: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (re-read, audio) Heaven… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – November 2010
Teaser Tuesday
For the people who were shovelling away on the housetops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball — better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest — laughing heartily if it went right, and not less heartily if it went… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday