February 2011
3 posts
“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her...”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett,A Little Princess (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
Remembering
My first love:
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe:
"It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with...
Writing
“To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.” -Lord Byron
So, I am writing a series of novels. In theory, that is. The only problem—I have no time to breathe, much less write for myself. Between work, school, marriage, ministry, and other familial/friendly duties, I am officially over my 24 hour per day limit. This...
June 2010
1 post
Misgivings
Well…it seems I am not an avid blogger. Since my last post, I have finished Sense and Sensibility, read Jane Eyre, and have reread most of the Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray—I am currently on book three The Sweet Far Thing.
While I read mostly classic literature, I do enjoy a good fantasy novel every once in a while. The Gemma Doyle Trilogy is by far the best that I have read in...
May 2010
10 posts
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Crazy
“Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60’s. Or maybe I was just a girl… interrupted” - Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted (The movie)
This is a movie quote…but it is a quote from a movie made after a...
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“For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust...”
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Screw you, Sherlock Holmes.
I have just discovered that I know virtually nothing.
If you want to talk about classic literature or psychology—I’m your girl. Outside of these two areas, I am apparently a blithering fool. This is honestly a surprise to me.
I was reading an article today, and it mentioned the names of two different seas. I had literally never heard of them in my lifetime. I know next to nothing...
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Fail
Okay, so my first attempt at blogging my literary journeys has been a failure.
I did not balance reading and writing about Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy the way I had originally planned. I found myself swept away to the familiar English countryside of Hertfordshire—walking in the shrubbery of Longbourn and dancing freely at Netherfield. Then I found my heart once again in Derbyshire at...
“Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows...”
– Annie Dillard (via wordpainting) (via booklover)
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Inconsistency
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief in the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.”
-Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice
Tonight, I am tired. I am...
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Pride and Prejudice Sans Zombies
There was once a time when Jane Austen novels were not merely a literary fad. Before the time of Colin Firth, Keira Knightly, and Seth Grahame-Smith with his freaking zombies, there were simply the literary jewels left to us by one of the greatest authors of all time. Not that the movies, and Jane inspired novel spin-offs aren’t entertaining…they just do not compare to the real...
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The Constant Love of My Life
Well then…I suppose I have once again set aside my distaste for technology over paper, and will now be a part of the blogger world. “Yet this I call to mind, and therefore have hope”—my blog will be dedicated to the written word.
Literature has been the constant in my rather unstable life. I have had a passion for the classics for as long as I can remember. My adoration...