August 2024 - Starlight and Saucepans

20 Questions Book Tag

For those of us still in some form of education, welcome back to the school year! (If you need a little encouragement for the new year, check out this old post of mine of 10 Things to Be Grateful for…

By Lizzie Hexam August 27, 2024Bookishness10 Comments

Hugh Laurie as Frederick Little and Geena Davis as Eleanor Little in Stuart Little 1999

Miscellaneous

Stuart Little and The Portrayal of Parenthood in Children’s Entertainment

...or in which Lizzie waxes eloquent about Deep Topics using as a springboard a children's movie which was never meant to be a springboard for Deep Topics. Because how else would you spend a rainy summer day? (Buckle up, because…

By Lizzie Hexam August 19, 2024Miscellaneous6 Comments

photograph of an Edwardian woman typing on a typewriter

Bookishness

Of Tea and Idiots and Ominous Crashes (aka Story Snippets)

I fear that my last few posts - including this one - have been a little on the slapdash side. I apologize. I do have an actual substantive post in the works, which I should be posting by the end…

By Lizzie Hexam August 10, 2024Bookishness6 Comments

Period Dramas

Inklings // August 2024

Audio version of "Inklings // August 2024" is available here. Inklings is back for August, and with a snazzy new button! (Check out Heidi's post here for the rules to link up.) This month's prompt is a scene by the…

By Lizzie Hexam August 5, 2024Period Dramas2 Comments