Meanwhile, in Rivendell . . .

Recently, I've been privileged to get to know  Cordy .  I'm so glad we met!  Her blog is delightful and a lovely addition to the blogosphere:) And guess what?!  She's started this three-part tag  all about Christmas music, and she tagged me! Well.  You know me;) If I understand this correctly, each installment of the tag will have a different theme:  Ice Skating, Santa Claus, and Jesus' Birth (are those the right ones?).  Anyway, today's is ice skating , but this basically just means newer Christmas songs--as in, non-traditional, non-hymn songs.  Since Cordy has allowed us to interpret it that way, that's how I'm gonna do it;)  (And I'm going to steal her idea of including pretty ice skating pictures.) Rules 1.)  Link back to the person who tagged you 2.)  List up to five holiday songs that meet the current category (for today, 'ice skating') 3.)  Tag up to five other bloggers and let them know that you ...

I may step on a few toes in this post.  Just be prepared;) SO.  If you've been following my blog for any length of time, you probably know that I am a rather fanatical lover of the BBC show Robin Hood .  I've reviewed all three seasons, I'm in the process of driving my mother crazy by pestering her about watching it with me, and few other stories get me quite as emotionally "stirred up" as RH.  (To which anyone who knows me really well will scoff.) I love the storyline, the different twists on the original legends, and I love the characters. Marian, especially, is one of my favorites out of them all. I know Marian irritates some people, and I understand that (partially), but I really love this gal, so I wanted to share the reasons why with you all!:) One of the chief complaints I think people have with Lucy Griffith's portrayal of Marian is that they think she's this hugely politically correct character, a deference to the feministic commu...

Is this not like the coolest movie poster everrrrr? "You see many stories where the woman says, 'We love you, guys, no matter what you look like,' so I wanted a story where it was giving the women the same."         ~ Leslie Caveny, writer for Penelope Christina Ricci stars as Penelope, a lonely heiress who has spent her entire life trying to break a strange family curse that left her with the nose of a pig.  When she meets a charming aristocrat, James McAvoy, who seems to see beyond her physical appearance, Penelope begins to learn that loving herself is more important than breaking the curse. (I did not write the above summary; it came from the back of the DVD, and I excluded the parentheses where they tell you the other movies in which the actors have acted.  I didn't feel like coming up with an introduction, so I decided to plagiarize.  Usually works;D) I don't know how my family first came by this movie, but I'm glad we did! ...

I don't know why it's taken me so long to get around to this!  My friend  Erudessa  put together a new blog meme known as the Memory Nest, and she kindly asked me if I'd be interested in getting it going! Needless to say, I was;) Here's what's what (taken from her blog via Emma's post , because apparently I can't find Erudessa's original post): Instead of having to answer questions or tell random facts about yourself {like a normal tag} you make up random nonsense that starts with: 'When I grow up and have my own house' And then list a random fact. It can be true example: 'When I grow up and have my own house, I am going to learn to play the Violin', or serious, 'When I grow up and have my own house, I want and Old English Garden with a sun dial' or complete nonsense like, 'When I grow up and have my own house, I am going to make a different chocolate dessert everyday.' Instead of an 'awards tag' it's a...

Here I am to share my selection for  Heidi's November edition of Inkling Explorations !  The theme for this month: ~ a giving of thanks in prose or poetry ~ And my choice comes from The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien!  (Natalie, DON'T READ THIS!  If you don't already know what happens in RotK, that is, and don't wish to know.) …Is Natalie/whoever else doesn't want LotR spoilers gone? Okay, then.  We can proceed;) This passage comes after the Ring has been cast into the fires of Orodruin, and Sam and Frodo awake to find themselves rescued and in the camp of Aragorn in…Ithilien, I think.  Sam is disoriented at first, but at being reunited with Gandalf, all the toils and sorrows of his heavy journey begin to fall away, and his out-gushing of relief and exhilaration reach a robust crescendo throughout the whole latter part of the chapter.  It's all joyous and exuberant and wonderful, but for the sake of brevity I must limit it to t...

I did it!  I finished…the first shelf.  Approximately…oh, well, I guess it was only about a month after I posted the initial  Bookshelf Project  low-down.  It felt longer; I'm not a very fast reader;)  AND, I now rather want to join Lois's  12 Month Classics Challenge  for 2016, and if it's going to take me an average of a month per shelf, I need to get down to business to defeat the Huns  hasten (because a queen never rushes, she hastens). Let's do this, shall we?  (I'm afraid this will be one of those parenthetical, gif-filled, link-overdosed posts that might be irritating to certain constitutions.  Abject apologies and all that.) But anyway.  Thoughts on the first shelf!  (Just so you know, I add new novels to the Bookshelf Project as I get them, so several have been added since September.) Those I finished : A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich.  This one was really good.  I know y...

Well, I'm baaaaaack!  Did you miss me? ;)  (I guess I kind of already announced that I was back in my answers to the Jane Austen tag, but we shan't quibble.) I've been wanting to do a "TV ship appreciation" kind of post for a while now, so here I am!  There are so many couples from so many TV shows that I just love to pieces, so I'm going to unleash all my feels on you all now.  You have been warned;)  Some of these ships sailed and the two became a couple, some are still airing as series, so it's still up in the air, and some of these ships sunk, but I love them all:) Oh, and I won't be mentioned all the couples I ship from all the TV shows I like--just the ones that have really been burning in my mind recently (that's an odd way of putting that…).  Hence the lack of certain couples, such as Sookie/Jackson, Rumple/Belle, Chummy/Peter, Guy/Meg, Alfie/Minnie, etc:) Alec Hardison and Parker (does Parker have a last name??) From:  Lever...