Classics, Nonfiction, and Children's Literature
This month is National Poetry Month! To celebrate, I’m posting one poem (or extract) a day on my quotes tumblr. I know a number of people don’t like or use tumblr, but I’m giving it a try. I’m enjoying the challenge to review my favorite poems and find ones that resonate with me.I’m focusing on
I rarely buy books so I can’t tell you how excited I am by the one that I ordered that came today! (P.S. sorry for the poor quality, I only have my cell phone right now.) Isn’t it a beauty?! 1215 pages of Pevear and Volokhonsky translated pleasure. I hope at least. I will be
I am not going to stay up all night, but I am going to focus on reading today and tonight! I’m excited to see the readathon is going on. I will update this post with my progress. My goal is finish some books or at least make progress. I’m in the middle of a lot
Book Blogger Appreciation Week may be a month past already, but I’ve been thinking home much I enjoyed sharing one of my newly discovered “treasure” in blogging. I had a hard time deciding which blogger to share about that week, so I have decided I’ll try to make it a habit to talk about some
Today opens the Cybils nomination process. If you don’t know, the Cybils are the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards. I didn’t participate last year or even follow it, but this year I intend to do just that! My focus will be on the fiction and non-fiction picture books. I am not a kidlit
Someone out there is rolling their eyes at my obvious obsession with alliteration and seasonal reading. This year I started a Milton in May event, and then My Victorian Summer. I just couldn’t think of a better name for my two-month (or so) immersion in Africa, so An African Autumn it is. For this project,
Today’s BBAW subject is to share a book or genre that I have tried because of the influence of another blogger. Blogging has greatly changed my reading patterns and choices, and in the past year I think blogging has brought me the unexpected treasures of graphic novels and classics.
After my first Book Blogger Appreciation Week, I added probably about 100 hundred blogs to my reader. Last year was year two and I found myself similarly overwhelmed with wonderful new blogging friends. I’m finding that this year, I’ve been more on the periphery because I’m busy with other things in life, and I’m trying
With my new emphasis on classics on this site and since the Classics Circuit is currently on hiatus, I wanted to shout out two awesome classics projects. The first is Amanda’s Classics Blogger Directory. This is listing of self-submitted bloggers who like to read and post about the classics — it shows us that we
My self-imposed blogging vacation was only about a week old before I started thinking of starting up again. But I told myself I needed to enforce that blogging break, and therefore wouldn’t “allow” myself to blog again until September. I instead spent time redesigning the site and pondering just what I want to be doing
It’s well into June and I haven’t done a “last month in review” post. Since I’m trying to simplify blogging, I’m going to do things a little differently from now on, I think. This is a review of my Milton in May project (which I finished last week). My next “project in review” post will
I am not finished with Milton, despite the fact that May is over. I will have another Paradise Lost post (probably tomorrow) and probably two to four more posts in the two weeks – posts on the biography I finished, the C.S. Lewis commentary I’m reading, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and possibly some other Milton
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