Jay and I have an agreement: if there’s a rugby international on, he gets to go hang out with his mates – AFTER he drops me off at the cinema. I’m not a waitin’ around for your man to come home kinda gal! It was hard to pick what to watch this past weekend (being […]
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Super Bowl Sunday, Miserable Monday
Ya’ll know that I love football. (The American kind, not the whiny British kind. Obviously.) That means that I was there watching The Super Bowl along with everyone else – I just had to do it much, much later. *groan* The time difference means that I had to stay up until 3AM to catch The […]
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A Song for Sunday: Delta Rae, Morning Comes
This week, in honour of @Nurse_Arch5‘s recent discovery of them, my Song for Sunday comes from Delta Rae: I cannot even say how much I love this band. Their music is country-ish without making me want to stick my head in the oven. (You know… “Mah wife done run off and mah dawg got hit […]
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2013 Reading Goal: January Reads
I said to Jay yesterday, “I only read FOUR books last month!” with a look of absolute horror on my face. He replied, “No! What’s WRONG with you?!?” One of us was being sarcastic – and, considering Jay hasn’t read four books in ten years, it wasn’t me. I’m already behind! I need to be […]
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey
CATEGORY: bibliophile, books, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, open university, reading, School Time Wondra, Thomas De QuinceyI recently had to re-read Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey for school. I don’t remember anything about it standing out the first time I read it but this time around I found it deeply profound (if a bit pretentious.) Several of the lines stood out – such as ‘I could not, […]
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When winter came to Wales.
I’ve lived in this country now for nearly ten years. For the most part, the climate is very similar to the one I left behind in Michigan – with a few minor differences: the summers are more humid, it rains more, we rarely get thunderstorms, and it hardly ever snows. When it does snow, it […]
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A Song for Sunday: Seether – Country Song
I got bored this week and put my last.fm Scrobbler onto the Godsmack channel and, not too long after, this song came up: Epic. It’s got just the right blend of twang and rock to make it awesome. (Not that Seether need any help being awesome.) The lyrics taste of a bad break up and […]
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Peter Pan – Favourite Quotes
CATEGORY: bibliophile, books, Disney, films, Hook, J. M. Barrie, movies, Peter Pan, quotes, reading, Wendy
I recently read J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed it. Actually, I was surprised that I hadn’t read it until now – I mean, I AM thirty, for Pete’s sake! But then I remembered that while other kids my age were reading this, I was busy reading Dracula. (And every […]
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A Song for Sunday: The Lumineers – Ho Hey
Something a bit different for you this Sunday: Ho Hey by The Lumineers. The music video appealed to me before the song did. What can I say? I’m a sucker for flashing lights. (Oooh… Bright…) Seriously, though, I like the rustic feel and I like that it doesn’t try to do too much. No story, […]
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A Very Literary Blog Swap
It’s time for our monthly post from our good friend Jessica over at a Shimmering Star and this time the theme is literature… Sharing the Joy of Reading Reading has always been one of my favorite activities. My parents never had to urge me to find something to do; if I was bored I would […]
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