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It's So Classic -- Blog Tag

The It's So Classic Blog Party hosted by Rebellious Writing comes complete with a tag!  And since I'm reading War and Peace right now and am only a little over 500 pages into my 1300-page copy and don't have any book reviews to write right now as a result, a tag is exactly what I need.  Here goes!

Rules:

1. Link your post to Rebellious Writing
2. Answer the questions
3. Tag at least 5 bloggers.

What is one classic that hasn’t been made into a movie yet, but really needs to? ...

Top Ten Tuesday: Classic Besties

Today's Top Ten Tuesday prompt from That Artsy Reader Girl is "Book Characters I’d Love to Be Besties With."  I'm going to focus specifically on characters from classic books for my list, to correlate with the It's So Classic Blog Party.



I can't decide on an order of preference for these, so I'm listing them alphabetically.

1. Anne Elliot from Persuasion by Jane Austen.  Anne is a lot like me -- quiet, shy, helpful, stubborn, thoughtful.  I think we would get along quite wel...

"The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

Oh. My.

So, I've heard some pretty glowing stuff about this book from a lot of people over the past few years.  I even checked it out of the library once, but didn't get around to reading it before it was due.  

Mostly, I wanted to read it because I love graveyards. I love to ramble around in them, reading headstones and soaking up history.  When we lived in Connecticut, there was a massive graveyard a few blocks from our house that was the only really wide-open space with g...

"Psalms to Color and Soothe the Soul" Coloring Book by Felicity French

Today is National Coloring Book Day!
To celebrate, I'm going to share one of my favorite adult coloring books with you: Psalms to Color and Soothe the Soul with artwork by Felicity French.

I've had this book for a couple of years now, but I'd only done two pictures in it until this summer.  I go through phases where I color regularly or don't color at all, sometimes for weeks or months.  Right now, I'm in the middle of one of the color-often phases, and I've been really drawn to...

It's So Classic Blog Party

Hey, check it out! Rebellious Writing is hosting a blog party next month!  The It's So Classic Blog Party will be all about classic books and what they give us.  I definitely want to participate somehow -- just have to figure out what to write about!  (Shhh, probably Hamlet or something Shakespeare-related, don't tell anyone.  Nobody will expect that.  It'll be such a surprise!)  Check out their post here for all the party details ;-)

"Lies Jane Austen Told Me" by Julie Wright

I seem to be most in the mood to read cute romance stories in the summer and around Christmas.  Other times of year, not so much my thing.  Hmm.  Anyway!  It's summer, this is a cute romance, and I thoroughly enjoyed it!  I loved the Jane Austen connections, and I loved that it was clean.

Emma Pierce is a rising executive for a gym chain.  She loves Jane Austen's books, but she's been hurt emotionally in the past, and when her boyfriend Blake disappoints her, she...

"Curse and Consequence" by Savannah Jezowski

As you may have noticed, I am an Austenite.  I've got a shelf overflowing with books by and about Jane Austen, and that has led me to enjoy other books set in the Regency era as well.  Books like this!  I guess you could call this magical historical realism fiction?  

Curse and Consequence is set in the Regency era, but it's filled with magic.  Two brothers, Hugh and Sedgwick Whitby, both fancy the same girl, Rea Abernathy.  Rea is their mother's ward, a...

"By the Shores of Silver Lake" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

As a kid, this was my favorite of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books.  I think that miiiiiight have had a little to do with the fact that there's a horse on the cover of my copy.  But also, nothing terribly bad happens in this one.  Locusts don't eat up their crops, they don't have to leave the home they built 3 miles too far west, and they don't almost starve.  This one and Little House in the Big Woods were my favorites as a kid, because they were so peaceful, and they're...

"The Racketty-Packetty House" by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.  Y'all, this is the sweetest book.  I can't believe I'd never heard of it before I picked it up off the shelf at the library, completely at random!  I mean, it's by Frances Hodgson Burnett.  How did this never cross the path of the little girl who memorized whole passages of The Little Princess and pretended she had her own Secret Garden???  I guess our libraries just didn't have it, and book blogs, Bookstagram, Booktube... those weren't thi...

"The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman

Once in a while, I like to pick up a book to read that I've never heard anything about.  I like to browse the library stacks, pulling off books and reading their dust jacket flaps until I find one that interests me.  That's how I found this book.  Yes, I've read things by Neil Gaiman before, but I'd never heard of this particular book of his.  It looked and sounded interesting, so I checked it out and read it.

I'm not always a huge fan of magical realism.  I mean, some...