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picture of fiddler in Fiddler on the Roof

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

cover for 1991 Khraniteli Soviet Fellowship of the Ring

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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

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis book cover

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Ramblings on Out of the Silent Planet

The lovely Maidens of Green Gables are hosting a Faith Filled Fiction Blog Party - do hop over and check it out! As you may have deduced from the post title, I have decided to write about Out of the…

By Lizzie Hexam March 15, 2024Bookishness, Spiritual Life14 Comments

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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

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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