February 2024 - Starlight and Saucepans

Reading David Copperfield: Chapters 21-30 (or In Which I Devote Much Time to Yelling in Frustration at David)

This poor little series has been pushed aside in the past few weeks (and probably will continue to be neglected for some weeks more, since I have quite a few posts in the works), but here is part 3 of…

By Lizzie Hexam February 29, 2024Bookishness6 Comments

Bookishness

A Half-Hearted Defense of Henry and Mary Crawford

Shall I shock you all and confess that there was a point in my first perusal of Mansfield Park in which I was really hoping Fanny would end up with Henry Crawford? While Jane Austen has plenty of interesting villains,…

By Lizzie Hexam February 21, 2024Bookishness12 Comments

Bookishness Period Dramas

We Love Sibling Stories Week Tag

Today marks the beginning of We Love Sibling Stories Week over at Hamlette's Soliloquy...I may or may not be still writing my post for that, and it may or may not be turning out much longer than anticipated. But all…

By Lizzie Hexam February 19, 2024Bookishness, Period Dramas6 Comments

St. Mary Magdalen at the foot of the cross

Spiritual Life

Ash Wednesday

Today is Ash Wednesday. "Remember, man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return." We hear some variation on these words today as the priest or deacon marks our foreheads with ashes in the shape of a cross…

By Lizzie Hexam February 14, 2024Spiritual Life2 Comments

Bookishness

Reading David Copperfield: Chapters 11-20 (or In Which I Am Amused by Uriah Heep’s Grossness & Disgusted by Steerforth’s)

Well, I have returned with part 2 of my reading David Copperfield: chapters 11-20. It has not ceased to engross, you will be happy to know. And these ten chapters were on average a lot cheerier than the first ten,…

By Lizzie Hexam February 7, 2024BookishnessNo Comments

Period Dramas

Emma (1996) Review

(When I say "Emma 1996," I am referring, as you can see from the picture up above, to the Gwyneth Paltrow Emma. I suppose the People Who Make Movies were not feeling very moderate that year, since there are two…

By Lizzie Hexam February 2, 2024Period Dramas6 Comments