This is kind of a confession: yes, I have seen Game of Thrones. This is a show with a lot of sex and violence- not something I usually endorse or even take part in. But I have some influences in my life and it wasn't something I could necessarily avoid. It is alright though. I ended up kinda liking it- a guilty pleasure, a VERY guilty pleasure. So after noticing the book on the list I was a little excited about actually reading it. I thought a certain someone had all these books but I think they are being put away or borrowed. In any case I did find the first book at the Goodwill.
Game of Camping Chairs- I mean Thrones because "Summer is Coming"
Yup, we even have the wine
This is a fun clip but my favorite one is My Favorite
This week for the Popsugar Challenge I have finished Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller for the prompt "a book by or about a person with a disability". I have wanted to read this book for awhile since I found it was an Oregon Battle of the Books books. I have been a fan of The Miracle Worker and Helen Keller's life for a long time. I love American Sign Language and was even privileged enough to work with a group of deaf children as a camp counselor for a week. This was a great book from Annie Sullivan's perspective. She does call Helen some names that would be greatly frowned upon today but knowing that this is from a different time and being sensitive to Annie's childhood I was not taken aback. I enjoyed this book. I was originally going to attempt two books this week but as soon as I started reading Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery I knew I wanted to savor that book. Montgomery has such a way with words an...
I just finished reading The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner. I really liked it and I would like to share some of my thoughts on it. This book revolves around a wide variety of characters who share a love for Jane Austen's work. We have Adam, the farm worker, Adeline, the widowed former school teacher, the doctor of the town, Dr. Gray, Evie, a teenager who works in the "Great House", Mimi, the famous American actress and her friend Yardley who works as an auctioneer, Andrew, the solicitor, and Miss Frances Knight, a descended of Jane Austen and keeper of the "Great House". They join together after World War II to save Jane Austen's legacy. My favorite character was probably Evie. She has so much drive and determination. She is wise beyond her years. She starts a project and sees it through. Even though I rarely finish my projects I still saw myself in her the most because of her drive to even start...
The unfortunate problem with doing a daily project such as this is that if you miss a few days they start piling up pretty fast and some books will not even get as much of a post as others especially incredibly long books such as War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. This book is just about as long as The Count of Monte Cristo but seems a lot more intimidating almost solely because it is Russian. My roommate in college read it and I should have given her more props for such an amazing accomplishment. Any way this will be the second to last book I get to on The Great American Read List . Here are a few things I watched to give me an idea about what I will be getting myself into in the far far future. One of the lamest and biggest reasons I want to read War and Peace is because one of the translators is named Larissa. It is too bad Larissa is such a popular Russian name and Russian literature is so daunting to me. This is a library ...
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