Meanwhile, in Rivendell . . .

Naomi  has created a cute tag, and has tagged me!  Thanks a bunch, dearie:) Look at all the sweet pink! Here are the rules as per Naomi's instructions: ~ Paste the button onto your blog post. ~ Leave a new list of questions (or just pass on the question list you answered) and tag a few people of your random choice (and say why you tagged them, if you have time!) (Be original and nonsensical in your question-creativity - make the blogging world a cheerful place :-) And be disastrously random.) Now for the fun... ~Write down three facts about you - one of them is WRONG. Let your commenters guess in the comments which one is wrong (and tell them in the comments after a while) ~Answer the questions of the person who tagged you - make it all super random and interesting :-D Aaaand, let's get started with her questions !  I'se excited, I am:) Are there flowers in your bedroom? I keep a vase of fake flowers on my desk, and then I have more fake flower...

Wow, that game went better than I thought it would!  A lot of you joined in, even if you didn't know very many, which was very encouraging, so thank you:) <3 As promised, here are the answers to the lines: #1:  "In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster."   Answer:   Ivanhoe , by Sir Walter Scott #2:  "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."   Answer:   Jane Eyre , by Charlotte Brontë #3:  "First the colors.  Then the humans."   Answer:   The Book Thief , by Markus Zusak #4:  "All children, except one, grow up."   Answer:   Peter Pan , by J. M. Barrie #5:  "This story begins within the walls of a castle, with the birth of a mouse."   Answer:   The Tale of Despereaux, by ...

I'm participating in two blog events at once!  Whaaat.  So, anyway, Kellie Falconer is hosting her (apparently annual) Literary Heroine Blog Party  at Accordion To Kellie:D It was so hard to choose from the buttons she provided!! I was alerted to the fact that this fun little shindig was going on over at Naomi's blog (read her answers to the questionnaire  here ).  I'm thrilled to be participating! Here are my answers to the questions Kellie is asking: (Oh, and a note:  I'm going to try my very best to refrain from mentioning LotR people in the character questions.  Aren't you proud of me?) 1.  Introduce yourself!  Divulge your life's vision, likes, dislikes, aspirations, or something completely random!   Okie dokie!  Hi, I'd love it if you called me Arwen (Arwen is a perfectly elegant name xD ).  I'm a girl totally and completely in love with stories in any form.  I'm also -- infinitely more important...

Ah, the miniseries adaptation of Bleak House .  I determined to watch it after I finished the book, so I got it from the library and watched it with my parents.  That is, we watched what we could of it.  Unfortunately, the DVDs from the library were not, um, fully functional, so we actually missed about seven or eight of the fifteen episodes.  I know.  'T'was terrible.  But I was able to fill in the gaps for my parents to the best of my ability, so they at least got the general idea.  (Rest assured that I fully intend to find a way for my parents to see the whole thing.) My overall impression?  Basically that of Huckleberry Finn:  "They told the truth, mainly.  There was things what they stretched, but mainly they told the truth."   So here goes.  I'll start with what I didn't like, go to those matters on which I'm undecided, and end with what I liked immensely (by far the most substantial category!) :) And spoiler...

"For I saw very well that I could not have been intended to die, or I should never have lived; not to say should never have been reserved for such a happy life." ~ Bleak House , Chapter 36 Charles Dickens is not my favorite author.  'T'is just a fact.  Naturally, I love his conclusion to A Tale of Two Cities  (makes me sob), but having read that book and a part of Little Dorrit , as well as seen adaptations of LD and A Christmas Carol , I'm simply not a huge fan.  That isn't to say I don't think he's an amazing author, he just isn't my favorite.  There are reasons for that, but I shan't go into them now.  Suffice it to say that when I started reading BH (Bleak House) on Goodreads, I didn't expect to finish it.  I was fairly convinced that I would find it yet another dark tale that would weigh me down until I reached the far-off ending, and to be frank I didn't want to have to sacrifice hours and hours in the dark to get to a ...