Happy Friday!
This weekend there are a lot of Remembrance services and parades happening so I have chosen a poem by Housman who wrote some of his most famous poetry during the Great War. This poem helps remind me just how young so many of the soldiers were.
Here Dead We Lie
Here dead we lie
Because we did not choose
To live and shame the land
From which we sprung.
Life, to be sure,
Is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is,
And we were young.
A. E. Housman
Happy reading.
I am getting so excited for Christmas that I have started reading my Christmas reading list! I will be adding to this list, as at the moment it is way too short. I always go to the German Market in Birmingham to do some Christmas shopping and I always spend a lot of time in Waterstones and that is usually when I get most of my Christmas books, so watch this space!
So here is the list in no particular order:-
The Night I Met Father Christmas by Ben Miller
Miss Marley by Vanessa Lafaye
A Very Murderous Christmas by various authors
A Very Country Christmas by Zara Stonely
A Literary Christmas: An Anthology
I have just started reading A Very Murderous Christmas and so far it is proving to be very good.
If you have any Christmas books to recommend to me please drop me a comment.
WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words.
The rules are answer the questions below and a share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.
What I am currently reading:-
The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths
As some of you may know I do love books by Elly Griffiths and this is no exception, I am racing through this book.
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
I’ve set myself the challenge to read more Shakespeare, as I have only read his work that I had to at school, so far this is proving to be an interesting if slightly long winded read.
Books I have recently finished:-
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Really enjoyed this and could not put it down. Fantastic read.
The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs
Another great read, that I polished off in a few hours.
What I think I will read next:-
This is always a tricky question for me as I generally always change my mind, so apologies if I don’t stick with my first choices.
Miss Marley by Vanessa Lafaye
A Literary Christmas.
That is another WWW Wednesday complete. Please drop me a link to your WWW Wednesday and please feel free to comment about any of the books listed.
Happy reading.
Hello everyone!
Well this week I am back to teaching and half term already seems like it was ages ago. Due to this I have gone for an education quote for this week’s quote. This quote I completely agree with and try to always be improving my own skills and learning new things.
John Cotton Dana (1912)
Happy reading
Guess what?
I’ve been buying books again!
Only four books I promise.
Two of the books I got because I found them interesting and linked to my Masters and the other two are pretty and Christmas books so I just had to get them.
Here they are:-
Miss Marley by Vanessa Lafaye
A Literary Christmas: An Anthology
Ancient Rome by Virginia Campbell
Ancient Greece by David Michael Smith
I cannot wait to start reading them!
Happy Reading!
Hello everyone!
I have started to think of my Christmas reading list. I usually begin my Christmas reading on the 1st December but this year I am very tempted to begin earlier because usually I am so busy during the month of December. Also I just want to get into the Christmas spirit!
The first on the list is a book recommended to me by my best friend, who sent me a very excited text yesterday telling me I just had to read it.
The Night I Met Father Christmas by Ben Miller
The second book will be a new copy of The Nutcracker which as you know I read every year and every year I get a new edition, the prettier the better.
So let the planning and Christmas book buying commence. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
Happy reading.
Well looking back on October I can say it was thankfully a better month than September.
Books read
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
3/5 Dragons
324 pages
Classics: A Very Short Introduction by Mary Beard and John Henderson
4/5 Dragons
145 Pages
Girl in Trouble by Stacy Claflin
3/5 Dragons
317 pages
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
5/5 Dragons
422 pages
(If you click the image it will take you to the review)
Total pages this month: 1208
Total pages this year: 12897
Here’s to another good month of reading.
Happy November!
This poem is from The Devil’s Thoughts by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
From his brimstone bed at break of day
A walking the Devil is gone,
To visit his little snug farm the earth,
And see how his stock goes on.
Over the hill and over the dale,
And he went over the plain,
And backward and forward he switched his long tail
As a gentleman switches his cane.
And how then was the Devil drest?
Oh! he was in his Sunday’s best:
His jacket was red and his breeches were blue,
And there was a hole where the tail came through.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Happy reading.
Happy Halloween Everyone!
I hope you all have a nice spooky book to read and celebrate halloween with.
I have chosen a little poem to celebrate.
In a dark, dark wood there was a dark, dark house,
and in that dark, dark house there was a dark, dark room,
and in that dark, dark room there was a dark, dark cupboard,
and in that dark, dark cupboard there was a dark, dark shelf,
and on that dark, dark shelf there was a dark, dark box,
and in that dark, dark box there was a … GHOST!
Anon
Happy spooky reading!
Hello my fellow readers!
I am very excited because tonight I am off to the theatre for a lovely meal, some cocktails and of course a play. The play is called Pride and Prejudice (Sort of). Apparently it is from the point of view of the servants, which should be interesting.
Anyway, here is my chosen quote for the week. This weeks quote is by Thomas Edison who was an American inventor who in his lifetime invented over 1000 devices.
Thomas Edison (Pre-1910)
Happy reading
Lady Book Dragon 