It’ the great Virginia Woolf’s birthday. The English writer is the author of such novels as The Voyage Out and Between the Acts, however her grassroots approach to informing and inspiring feminism led to Woolf’s best-known nonfiction work A Room of One’s Own. She has left a legacy that inspired works such as Who’s Afraid…
This Easter, I was thinking about what I could offer my lovely readers. Like many holidays, Easter itself is a time of delight for children, however in my opinion, Easter is more so for little ones because rather than holiday parties and gifts for young and old, we focus on the youth with Easter baskets…
I realize that many of the movies I select to do posts on are originally books. I suppose a bestselling book makes a good story on film and is a testament to my selective film taste as well as literary eye. So this time around I’m starting the year off writing about a book that befittingly starts…
I have not posted about the books I love in a while. Most times I find myself writing about female authors and my favorite classics. This time I want to bring to front a novel of significance by a gentleman that was also made into a film. Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir by American…
When I was in high school we had a physics project to build a real boat out of butcher paper and wood that would actually float in water. We were given extra credit for coming up with a theme and dressing up the boat as well as ourselves. Somehow our amateur physics skills resulted in…
This morning I woke up and opened my internet browser expecting a rush of Cyber Monday propaganda, however to my pleasant surprise, the first thing I saw was today’s Google Doodle, which was in honor of Anne of Green Gables author, Lucy Maude Montgomery (more internationally known as L.M. Montgomery). Who is L.M. Montgomery? She…