This month, my post at Guys Lit Wire is about A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, which is one of my favorite stories of all time. I hope you'll check the post out!

And God bless Us, Every One!



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I hope all of you who celebrate Christmas are having a splendid day today!

My day so far:

1. Christmas phone calls with my parents and my brother, all of whom received signed copies of Linda Sue Park's A Long Walk to Water as part of their present. I've also sent a donation to Water for Sudan.org, the nonprofit organization founded by Salva Dut, ( Read more... )

This post is about the story by Charles Dickens, not an actual song (although I did list some favorite carols the other day).

I am certain I've said this before, but I LOVE this story. How can you not love a story that begins "Marley was dead: to begin with" and then almost immediately launches into a digression about the phrase "dead as a ( Read more... )

As I've said before (and more than once), one of my all-time favorite stories of all time is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I adore it for its redemption story, for its humor, for its curmudgeon of a main character, its moral and social consciousness, its messages and, on a different level, for quite a number of its lines ( Read more... )

In this morning's post, I tackled the "unusual verbs: To Shakespeare and To Austen. This afternoon, I give you the other two Sara requested: To Wordsworth and To Dickens (a name worthy of being a verb if ever there was one). In selecting quotes from their works, I tried to find quotes that said a little something about the author's life and works. ( Read more... )

It seems to me that the world of people who read books for pleasure falls into two camps: those who re-read books, and those who do not. And I seriously make no judgment on that either way, but as it so happens, I am among those in the re-reading camp.


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This may turn out to be an abbreviated post this week due to visiting family and the resulting time constraints.

On things to avoid in children's writing

So, the other day I blogged about my Elf love. And in the movie, Buddy the Elf's real father is a soulless children's book publisher. Now, I should note that I haven't met any actual children's ( Read more... )

Fa la la la la, la la la la . . . Oh, right. You're not here for carols, you're here for quotes, si?

About literature and politics
In this festive holiday political season, what better than a quote from one of the most famous of U.S. presidents about poetry?

"When power narrows the areas of men's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and ( Read more... )