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The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) Review

Last year I read David Copperfield for the first time, and I laughed, I cried, it moved me, Bob. (You can read a blow-by-blow of my thoughts on each chapter if you want. *waves hand in direction of David Copperfield…

By Lizzie Hexam February 25, 2025Period Dramas9 Comments

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Period Dramas

Fiddler on the Roof and What Makes a Good Movie Musical

In my humble opinion, it's very hard to make a good movie musical. Musicals and movies are two wonderful ways of telling stories, but I would consider them to be pretty nearly diametrically opposed means of storytelling. Musicals are inherently…

By Lizzie Hexam February 13, 2025Period Dramas28 Comments

Miscellaneous Period Dramas

We Love Musicals Week Tag

We Love Musicals Week is starting today over at Hamlette's Soliloquy! I'm hoping to get a post up for that later this week, but in the meantime I decided to fill out this fun-looking We Love Musicals Week tag. 1. …

By Lizzie Hexam February 10, 2025Miscellaneous, Period Dramas10 Comments

Period Dramas Spiritual Life Vintage-ness

2024 Year in Review: Movies

I hope you're been having a marvelous 2025! Here I am to make it even better by blabbing about movies to you. You're welcome. This seems to have been The Year of the Animated Movie for me, since towards the…

By Lizzie Hexam January 4, 2025Period Dramas, Spiritual Life, Vintage-ness4 Comments

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Inklings // December 2024 (Christmas Edition!)

A very merry and wondrous Christmas Day to all of you! This seems like a highly appropriate time to share my post for the Inklings link-up (see the rules to link up here!), as the December prompt is (fittingly) a…

By Lizzie Hexam December 25, 2024Period Dramas8 Comments

Miscellaneous Period Dramas

Period Drama Match It Game Answers

(If you still would like to play this period drama match it game, by the way, it's not too late! Just hop back over to this post and play it now before you check out the answers in this post.)…

By Lizzie Hexam November 7, 2024Miscellaneous, Period Dramas4 Comments

Miscellaneous Period Dramas

Period Drama Match It Game

Here is the long anticipated, long awaited, breathtakingly wondrous period drama screencap and quote match-it game I mentioned last week. I'm so excited to try this out with you! Firstly, the rules. To play, leave a comment matching as many…

By Lizzie Hexam October 24, 2024Miscellaneous, Period Dramas22 Comments

Bookishness Period Dramas

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” (beware ✨aesthetics✨ ahead)

I wanted a post celebrating the beautiful season that is autumn, and eventually I hit on the idea of autumn-themed period drama mood boards. Part of the credit for this inspiration goes to a random denizen of the Internet who…

By Lizzie Hexam October 4, 2024Bookishness, Period Dramas12 Comments

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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

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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