Quick, fast, tell me your favorite Welsh Author!

Yeah?  Really?  You actually thought of someone off the top of your head?  Yeah, I wouldn't have 6 years ago either.  But I would have been able to extoll the virtues of the stories that Roald Dahl has shared with world.  Now I can tell you that Dahl is my favorite Welsh author.

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As a cat and musical lover, it's no surprise that I quite enjoy the Broadway musical Cats.  However, too few people know that the musical is based on a collection of poems by T.S. Eliot called Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.  This collection is an old favorite of mine and is a wonderful commentary on cats, their behaviors, and their unique ( Read more... )

Charles Dickens is one of the most iconic Victorian authors, well known both for being difficult to read, and being a treasure for all ages.  Of course we all know A Christmas Carol inside out and backwards, or at least a version of it, but who has read Dickens for the pleasure of the way he crafts his stories and the way his words play against ( Read more... )

"It's just us girls--the fifteen of you and my feminine side."   ~Dr. Lorne Mook

The above quote was from my Vic. Lit. prof. from the year before I had him.  He said that to my Bekah's Vic. Lit. class.   With professor showing off a sense of humor like that, how could Vic. Lit. be boring?  It wasn't.  Though I could have done better in the class, it ( Read more... )

It's not a secret that I love Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice, and I'm not alone.  This is a hugely popular novel, and story that has been adapted and used in pop culture for  many years.  A Romantic romance novel about the Bennet family and the marrying off of their eligible daughters, there is much social commentary twisted within Austin's tale ( Read more... )

Most of my close friends know this, but I've had many new additions to this journal in recent months, so let me introduce you to my dear, sweet Ozymandias.


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For my first Lit blog, I've decided to do write about William Blake.


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