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

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

The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis book cover

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Heaven and Hell in The Great Divorce

Today's blog post was slotted to be something quite different (its elegant title in draft was "First Drafts & Writer's Block & Snippets"), but then I stumbled upon the Grim Writer's Remember, O Thou Man Lent link-up...and that put an…

By Lizzie Hexam March 8, 2024Bookishness, Spiritual Life11 Comments

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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

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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

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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

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Reading David Copperfield: Chapters 1-10 (or In Which I Develop a Hearty Dislike for 80% of the Characters)

I fell ill this week. The result is that I have been shirking the Hard things I was supposed to be doing, and foregoing them for Easier things. One of those Easier things has been charging ahead in my current…

By Lizzie Hexam January 26, 2024Bookishness8 Comments

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2023 Year in Review: Bookish Edition

What ho, readers all! I thought it might be rather fun to do a little recap/review of new reads/watches for me in 2023 (fortunately I had the good sense to record the media I was consuming for most of the…

By Lizzie Hexam December 30, 2023Bookishness9 Comments

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Life According to Literature Tag

Good morning...that is to say, what-ho! Snooping about other people's blog archives, I found this very fun-looking little thingamajig, the Life According to Literature tag. I don't know if it's still a Thing in any way, shape or form, since…

By Lizzie Hexam December 7, 2023Bookishness2 Comments

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North and South Book Review

If you so much as gingerly step into the outskirts of the period drama world, you're bound to hear about North and South. I wanted to see the mini-series, but I wanted to read the book first because That's What…

By Lizzie Hexam November 18, 2023Bookishness2 Comments