September 2024 - Starlight and Saucepans

cover for 1991 Khraniteli Soviet Fellowship of the Ring

Highlights from Khraniteli (Soviet Fellowship of the Ring)

Where The Lord of the Rings are concerned, I'm more of a by-the-books kind of girl. But there is one film version I would like to highlight for you all today for Tolkien Week (check out Hamlette's post here to…

By Lizzie Hexam September 27, 2024Bookishness14 Comments

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Tolkien Blog Party Tag

The Tolkien Blog Party has started (see Hamlette's kick-off post here!), and there's a fun tag for it. I fear my tag answers will shame me, as I'm a comparatively light-ish Tolkien fan...I've read The Hobbit and LOTR multiple times,…

By Lizzie Hexam September 23, 2024Bookishness6 Comments

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Inklings // September 2024

What ho, readers all! The Inklings prompt for September (check out the rules for linking up here!) is a scene in a kitchen in book or film. I've decided to share the scene near the very beginning of Eight Cousins…

By Lizzie Hexam September 18, 2024Bookishness2 Comments

Miscellaneous

Sunshine Blogger Award #2

The lovely Astrya of Inkling Corner has nominated me for the Sunshine Blogger Award! (Awfully obliged, Astrya!) First things first I'll let you know the rules, so you can chastise me if you catch me breaking them. 1. Display the…

By Lizzie Hexam September 11, 2024Miscellaneous7 Comments

Period Dramas

Emma (1997) Review

(Please note that this Emma really originally came out in 1996, but to differentiate it from the Gwyneth Paltrow version (which I reviewed here), and because it wasn't released in the US until 1997, I'm referring to it as the…

By Lizzie Hexam September 4, 2024Period Dramas2 Comments