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2025 Year in Review: Movies

Happy still-pretty-new year! As promised, here I am with the movies edition of my 2025 year in review (and I'm only posting it a few days later than I said I would. Wonders never cease). I didn't watch many new…

By Lizzie Hexam January 6, 2026Period Dramas, Vintage-ness25 Comments

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Inklings // November 2025 (A Christmas Carol)

Happy Christmas Eve! The prompt for November's Inklings link-up (check out the rules to link up here!) is a scene with a feast in book or film. I thought it would be only fitting to do something festive and seasonal…

By Lizzie Hexam December 24, 2025Bookishness5 Comments

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Bleak House (2005) Review

I should start this review off with a confession. Although I didn't love every single thing about the 2005 Bleak House, and although it drove me to say more than once (though not often) that stinging indictment "that's not how…

By Lizzie Hexam September 15, 2025Period Dramas17 Comments

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Sunshine Blogger Award #4

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I was tagged for some Sunshine Blogger Awards. Cecilia very kindly tagged me (thank you Cecilia!), then Liz Churchill very kindly tagged me (thank you Liz!), and then Frankie very…

By Lizzie Hexam July 16, 2025Bookishness, Miscellaneous, Period Dramas21 Comments

movie cover for The Personal History of David Copperfield 2019

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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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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

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Our Mutual Friend (1998) Review

I think I was thirteen when I first read Our Mutual Friend, and I fell head-over-heels in love with it. When I first heard there was a mini-series of it, I had no interest in seeing it. They thought they…

By Lizzie Hexam June 29, 2024Period Dramas5 Comments

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Reading David Copperfield: Chapters 61-64 & Concluding Thoughts

And here we finally are, with my last installment of my reading David Copperfield: Chapters 61-64! And some concluding thoughts on the book as a whole. (Here are the other posts in this series, if you missed any of 'em:…

By Lizzie Hexam May 24, 2024Bookishness8 Comments

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Reading David Copperfield: Chapters 51-60 (or In Which Things Are Really Depressing)

What ho, what ho! We're back once again for the second to last installment of my reading David Copperfield: Chapters 51-60. (This is a long book, my friends. In case you were wondering.) You can read my other Reading David…

By Lizzie Hexam May 3, 2024Bookishness4 Comments

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Reading David Copperfield: Chapters 41-50 (or In Which I Am Surprised by Something HAPPY Happening For Once & I Gush Over Mr. Dick)

Well, we're back! Part 5 of my reading David Copperfield: chapters 41-50. (We've passed the half-way mark!) As usual, be prepared for lots of spoilers and strong emotions. You can find my other Reading David Copperfield installments here: Chapters 1-10,…

By Lizzie Hexam April 19, 2024Bookishness2 Comments