I’d like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope you can spend some time with people you love. Thank you for reading my posts, commenting, and liking. You are my greatest incentive. Today, I’ve prepared a special post about Christmas celebrations and symbolism in Jane Eyre. Some of Jane Eyre’s happiest andContinue reading “Christmas in Jane Eyre”
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Flash! Friday (Micro Fiction) Contest
Eternal Love The evening sun was waning and I needed her consent before conversion. ‘I offer you eternal love, Mina,’ I promised. She looked into the glass of wine, lips pursed, and shook her head. ‘I prefer mortality.’ Seconds later I rushed out to the sound of the opening door. Lucy had arrived unexpectedly. ‘IContinue reading “Flash! Friday (Micro Fiction) Contest”
Five Secrets I’d like to Share
I was tagged by fellow-blogger and author Roberta Pearce several days ago to post five things about myself that people might not know. Well, if you don’t know it means it’s a secret, and if it’s a secret, I shouldn’t really be telling you, but since I can’t resist Roberta’s persuasive talents, I’ll have toContinue reading “Five Secrets I’d like to Share”
Nov 26 | Hello again, Jane!
Originally posted on hubilicious:
Welcome again to Bookworm Wednesdays! This time, a fellow blogger kindly (Luccia from Rereading Jane Eyre) asked me whether I were inclined to read her novel, and maybe also to review it after reading. And indeed, I was. (secretly totally freaking out – how exciting – being asked to write a…
The Real First Thanksgiving
Originally posted on SaylingAway:
Much has been written about the first Thanksgiving which took place at Plimoth Colony. Here is some information that is probably closer to the truth. As usual, click on the pictures. The First Thanksgiving 1621, oil on canvas by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1899) The voyage from Plymouth, England, had…
Growing Up Pilgrim
Originally posted on SaylingAway:
I love my home town and decided to take the opportunity of the upcoming holiday to tell you a little about it and also disenchant you of some of the first Thanksgiving myths. I grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and was lucky enough to be indoctrinated into Pilgrim ways from a…
There was no possibility of taking a walk that (November) day.
November is a dark and ominous month in Jane Eyre’s life. Firstly, she is locked in the red room, as a child, at Gateshead. Secondly, she is lonely at Thornfield Hall, before Rochester’s arrival. Finally she is leading a solitary life in Morton, while her cousin, whom she doesn’t love, proposes to her. Gateshead TheContinue reading “There was no possibility of taking a walk that (November) day.”
Cover Reveal! Death in a Dacron Sail by N. A. Granger
On an icy February morning, Rhe Brewster, an emergency room nurse with a nose for investigation, is called to a dock in the harbor of the small coastal town of Pequod, Maine. A consultant to the Pequod Police Department, Rhe is responding to a discovery by one of the local lobstermen: a fingerContinue reading “Cover Reveal! Death in a Dacron Sail by N. A. Granger”
Bite Size Memoir – It Made My Day!
Over the years, I’ve accompanied students on many eventful trips all over the world; some got lost, one travelled sans passport, another landed in the pilot’s cabin, lots got drunk, others saw ghosts… Honestly, I could write a book! The most memorable trip was to Italy with eighty mischievous adolescents who had made a pledgeContinue reading “Bite Size Memoir – It Made My Day!”
Book Review: All Hallows at Eyre Hall by Luccia Gray
Originally posted on S.K. Nicholls:
Coming of age at the Ethel Harpst Home, an orphanage in the North Georgia Mountains, when I first read Jane Eyre at fourteen, my primary focus on that book by Charlotte Bronte was Jane Eyre’s life. Her trials and tribulations facing loss and the strengths she relied on to…
Rereading Jane Eyre 