March 2010
41 posts
Ancient Greece Anyone?
I’m a huge fan of Historical fiction, mainly ancient Greece so for me (Lissa) this week will be devoted to Book Reviews on Greece. Enjoy!
February 2010
24 posts
“Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.”
—T.S. Eliot
LOL SMILEY FACE
“Villefort opened the door and fled, for he was seized with the impulse to choke out of the old man the little life that remained to him.”
This excerpt is from The Count of Monte Cristo and the man Villefort wanted to choke out was his own father! This urge was raised by the father revealing a secret which foiled a marraige deeply desired of the son between his daughter and a man she does not love. Maybe I’m a terrible person but when I read those words I couldn’t stop laughing! Even now I smile thinking about it.
January 2010
47 posts
“Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, its not your secret to tell.”
—Jacob Black
Streetcar Named Desire
- Blanche DuBois: I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a bulgar action.
- Mitch: I guess we must strike you as being a pretty rough bunch.
- Blanche DuBois: I'm bery adaptable to circumstances.
“It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.”
—- Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
“I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in he world.”
—Jane Eyre
