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Jane Austen July

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 21:56:49 GMT

Watched:

Emma 2020

Read:

Emma

The Jane Austen Society

The Jane Austen Book Club

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Middle Grade March

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:01:43 GMT

Surprise Attack of Jabba the Puppet by Tom Angleberger, series Origami Yoda
The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frred by Phineas Cricket, series Princess and the Goblin
Princess Labelmaker to the Rescue by Tom Angleberger, series Origami Yoda
The Tin Woodman of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, series Oz
Queste by Angie Sepp, series Septimus Heap
The Princess and Curdee, by George MacDonald, series Princess and the Goblin
Emperor Pickletine Rides the Bus by Tom Angleberger, series Origami Yoda

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2024 Year in Books

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 02:48:50 GMT

117 Books
102 Authors - 53% female
57 Series

Genre - top 5 read
1. Sci-Fi
2. Fantasy
3. Historical Fiction
4. Children
5. Mystery.

Authors from 15 countries outside of the USA.

Shortest Book - Young Zaphad Plays it Safe

Longest Book - Dombey and Son

Most Shelved on Goodreads - The Scorch Trials

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Non-fiction November

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:37:59 GMT

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Meaning in Star Trek
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas
The Library Book
This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It

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Victober 2024

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 21:39:00 GMT

The Warden by Anthony Trollope
In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3 by Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

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Series September

Sun, 06 Oct 2024 23:31:45 GMT

Book - Series
The Quest - Sanshlian (1)
Little Fuzzy - Fuzzies (1)
Fever Dream - Pendergast (10)
The Tale of Holly How - The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter (2)
A Dragon for Elizabeth - Jane Austen's Dragons (0.5)

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August books

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 01:44:26 GMT

I read quite a few short free books from BookFunnel:

Once Upon a Cafe
For Those About to Rock
Honeymoon Aboard the Mary Celeste
Buffalo Dogs (the Amazing Conroy Book 0.5)
Sinclair (A Trace Riker Adventure Spin-Off)
Crossing the Line
The Wedding

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Midyear book review.

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 23:21:54 GMT

Best book so far:

Just Stab Me Now - Jill Beaurup

Best sequel:

Rilla of Ingleside

Biggest surprise

The Villa - Rachel Hawikins

Author I want to read more of:

Rafael Sabarine

Biggest disappointment:

Blaze Union and the Puddin Head School

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Quarter Year Book Review

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 23:51:01 GMT

How many books read so far: 27

Favorite so far: Rilla of Ingleside

Least Favorite so far: Blaze Union and the Puddin' Head Schools

Most Read Genre: Children's

Surprise Read: Ella Enchanted.

Goal succeeding on: On tract to read 100 books for the year.

Goals to work on: Complete series, read author's around the world.

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February Books

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 21:12:43 GMT

Historical fiction - The Darling Dahlias and the Poinsettia Puzzle, Morgan's Run
Italy - Saving Italy, the Race to Rescue a Nations Treasures from the Nazis
Norse Myths
K-Pop - I'll be the One
Victorian - Mary Barton

The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

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2023 year in books

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 21:36:23 GMT

I add to the countries I have read authors from, with the following new countries:

Belarus
Columbia
Egypt
Haiti
Kenya
Saudi Arabia
Somalia

The shortest book: Power Trip by Jackie Collins.

Most shelved on Goodreads: The Lightening Thief by Rick Riodan - not surprising.

Least shelved on Goodreads: Roland Leong "The Hawaiian": Drag Racing’s Iconic Top Fuel Owner & Tuner

Highest Rated on Goodreads: Angel Girl Awakes by L.B. Anne, not widely read, but it is the start of a new spin off of a previous series, so of course it has been read by people who were already fans of the earlier series.

Most read genre - top 5

1. Biography, Memoir
2. Science Fiction
3. Children's
4. Mystery
5. Romance.

I hadn't realized I was reading so many biographies and memoirs.

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Nonfiction November

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 02:26:16 GMT

Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames by Lara Maiklem

The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic by Michael Sims

Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 by Cokie Roberts

The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination by Daniel J. Boorstin

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Victober

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:35:40 GMT

Victorian works - Queen Victoria's reign 1837 - 1901

The Way We Live NowAnthony Trollope my second time reading a book by Trollope. It is nice that this is a stand alone book, not part of a large series. Easier to follow since it doesn't go into a lot of church politics.

Adam Bede George Eliot - her first novel. Much simpler, easier to follow than Middlemarch.

Hard Times Charles Dickens I had never heard anything about this book before now.

Candida George Bernard Shaw first time reading Shaw's work.

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Movies

Sat, 02 Sep 2023 03:14:55 GMT

I re-watched 1976's The Man Who Fell to Earth - it really is a product of its time.

I saw Grey Gardens with Drew Barrymore. I thought Drew's accent was really odd, but when I googled it I found a lot of praise about how good she did with it. So I guess that was how Little Eddi talked. Maybe someday I will watch the documentary and hear the authentic sound for comparison.

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Jane Austen July

Sat, 29 Jul 2023 19:50:01 GMT

---The Challenges---

1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six novels Northanger Abbey
2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels Jack and Alice
3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time Jane Austen at Home
4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book OR a work of historical fiction set in Jane Austen’s time Arsenic and Austen
5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen - working on reading Mary Shelley's Last Man
6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book Emma 1996 Why have Knightly start his declaration of love by talking about holding Emma as a baby?
7. Watch a modern screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book Emma Approved. This made me realize that after Emma rejected him he married some one with all her worst faults. Emma is a bit of a snob - the new Mrs. Elliot is a huge snob. Emma tends to thinks she knows better than anyone else - Mrs. Elliot lets everyone know that she knows best. Emma is trying to run Harriet's life - Mrs. Elliot tries to run Jane's life. Harriet wants to listen to Emma and likes Emma. Mrs. Elliot does not realize Jane doesn't like her, and want her to leave her alone.

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People April

Sun, 30 Apr 2023 23:33:22 GMT

Prompts:

1. Sappho "Someone will remember us I say, even in another time" (a fragment recorded by others)
The Five Hallie Rubenhold

2. Maria Antoinette "Let them eat cake" (a known saying well before she supposedly said it in 1789) Taste Stanley Tucci

3. Martin Luther King "Have patience. Go where you must go and hope" (actually from the Lord of the Rings) Trials of the Earth

4. Morgan Freeman "Stupid is knowing the truth, seeing the truth, but still believing the lies" (Freeman never said this although it is a well-known phrase) Scoundrel

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First Quarter Book Review.

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:19:43 GMT

1. How many books so far - 34
2. Favorite so far - The Forgotten Planet by Murray Leinster - just pulpy fun.
3. Least Favorite - Wishes by Brittany Eden - pointless time jumps forward than back, overwritten.
4. Most read genre - Children's books, 2nd Sci-fi
5. Surprise - I enjoyed Wives & Daughter by Gaskell, I was surprised since North and South was so disappointing.
6. Goals success - doing good on reaching goal of 100 books for the year.
7. Goal I want to work on more - Authors around the world.

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Middle Grade March

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 01:24:33 GMT

1. An Award Winner - but not the Newbury Long Lost
2. A Sci-fi/Dystopia book We're Not From Here
3. Sky or Sea on the Cover - I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic.
4. Book with a Neurodivergent character - Focused & The Lightening Thief
5. Book published in the last year Heart Finds

Additional books read:

The Railway Children
The Library Card

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Sing

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 20:42:32 GMT

Sing 2016

My first thought was - who is this movie for?

A Frank Sinatra character? Do kids know who he is? Would the parents? Wouldn't he be more from the Great-grandparents time?

The scene with the Gorilla and his father was good. But we didn't get enough of the back story. Did he want to get out of his father's life of crime? He seemed happy to be involved.

Since there were so many characters none of them got much time.

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His Kind of Woman

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 20:18:08 GMT

His Kind of Woman 1951

An odd movie. It starts out a serious noir movie. Than ends with a wonderful comedic performance by Vincent Prince.

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Daughter of Eden

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 01:02:30 GMT

Daughter of Eden; Eve's Story by Jill Eileen Smith

Things that bothered me:

Adam tells Eve: "The Kingdom of God is like this mustard seed" Why? At this point there is no other organization, everything belongs to God, no rival has shown itself.

Satan is thrown to the earth before he deceives Eve. Again why?

When the serpent appears to Eve she knows it is not just a serpent, but one of the "shining ones" (angels)

God tells Adam how to plant, harvest, etc rather than Adam having to figure out things himself.

Eve gets pregnant right after Cain, yes getting pregnant while nursing is possible, but it is unlikely.

There is a thirty year gap between the death of Able and the birth of Seth.

The angels who take human wives do it because Satan orders them to, not because they wanted to.

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2022 Books Read

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:57:52 GMT

Number read: 117

Shortest book: Love and Friendship by Jane Austen

Longest book: The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

Most shelved on Goodreads: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Highest reated on Goodreads: I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History
by Emmanuel Iduma

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August Faustathon

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 01:59:30 GMT

Read

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

Watched

Faust – Eine deutsche Volkssage - 1926 Silent Movie

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From Prada to Nada

Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:20:57 GMT

A cute retelling of Sense and Sensibility.

I hated the dress they put Nora in for the party. First they go through skin tight mini dresses. Obviously not Nora's style. Than they choose a baggy shapeless gray dress. Every one ohs and ah about how good she looks. NO! It is an ugly dress. Gray with ruffles, no waist, no shape. It does absolutely nothing for her. The charactors who love bright colorful clothes should hate this.

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Midyear Books Read Review

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 16:12:05 GMT

Books through June 30th - Read 55 - 25 of which were audio books.

Genres - Most read: Children's, Fantasy, Historical Fiction

Authors from 12 different countries.

Best book: I, Emma Freke

Best sequel: Dragon Blood

Biggest Disappointment: Second Star to the Right.

Biggest Surprise: Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Body Under the Piano

Favorite New Author: Patricia Briggs

Fictional Crush: Ward of Hurog

Favorite Character: Aggie Morton

Books that made you cry: none

Books that made you happy: Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Body Under the Piano

Most Beautiful Book bought: The Little Princess.

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