Y’all. This tag. The Disney Song Book Tag was created by Aria’s Books, and I picked it up from Rachel at Life of a Female Bibliophile. 1. “A Whole New World” – Pick a book that made you see the world differently. This may not count, because I barely saw the world at all prior to reading these books. However, I’m still choosing the Chronicles of Narnia. My mother read these books to me and my sister starting when I was three, so there’s not much in my life that didn’t get put through the Chronicles of Narnia goggles. I…
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The time has come! The time is now! After a few years of lying fallow, Book Blogger Appreciation Week has returned! Huge, huge thanks to my co-hosts Heather, Andi, and Ana, and thanks to everyone who’s participating. Day 1: Introduce yourself by telling us about five books that represent you as a person or your interests/lifestyle. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte I’m starting with an unoriginal one, I know! But Jane Eyre was the first book where I ever read the end before I read the middle. It gave me a taste for romance, for gothic novels, for crazypants plots where…
55 CommentsLove this Booking Through Thursday question: What book would you love to be able to read again for the first time? Oh ever so many books. Mainly maybe The Chosen? And The Color Purple, and, oh, The Charioteer, and Watership Down. I can’t choose one. There are dozens of books that were such the most amazing experience ever the first time I read them – Fire and Hemlock was superb. Absolutely definitely The Far Pavilions and I Capture the Castle and Jane Eyre. Yes, Jane Eyre. If I had to choose one. I would choose Jane Eyre, my beautiful Jane…
Leave a CommentBut I just read this and threw up in my mouth a little. I can’t help feeling like this person has to be being sarcastic. Because nobody could say these things seriously, right? I mean everyone has noticed that Bella is a cipher, right? Even if you have overlooked Edward’s tendency to stalk and make decisions for Bella and you think he’s the perfect man, you’ve noticed that Bella has no personality. I mean, right? Twilight centers on a boy who loves a girl so much that he refuses to defile her, and on a girl who loves him so…
8 CommentsSo I read this for my Victorians class, basically because I want to write a paper on it for my final project – that research proposal is due in on Thursday and I’ve given it shockingly little thought in comparison to my usual intensive research schedules with these term paper things – anyway, I’m reading it for my final project, and I didn’t expect it to be any good. I judge books by their cover, and this cover was rubbish. I also judge them on really cheap jokes. The fact that she talks into her little voice recorder, the brand…
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