J.R.R. Tolkien

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Today is J.R.R Tolkien’s birthday, and apparently toasting “The Professor!” is how one is supposed to celebrate it. While deciding what to put in this post I was looking through some quotes from his writings and found one from The Two Towers that I truly love – as in “I want to hang this one on my wall” love: So here’s to The Professor!Read More →

Robert Jordan

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James Oliver Ridney, Jr. – AKA Robert Jordan – was born on October 17, 1948. Sadly, he passed away on September 16, 2007, from a rare medical condition that directly affected his heart. Best known as the author of The Wheel of Time fantasy book series, he was and still is beloved by his fans. I’ve mentioned several times that my son is a longtime, hardcore fan of the WOT series which has exposed me to a lot about this extremely interesting man over the years. In fact, I read the Origins of the Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies That Inspired Robert JordanRead More →

Agatha Chritie

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I saw on my calendar that today is Agatha Christie’s birthday and wanted to post something. The woman’s first book was published over 100 years ago, Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920. Anything that could be said has already been said. Then I found an extremely well put together official website for her works, The Home of Agatha Christie. The site includes a lengthy biography I thoroughly enjoyed reading. It begins with this image and paragraph (scroll down a little from where the link takes you): Seriously, this is a website a fan could spend hours on so, go… enjoy. Then curl up and read oneRead More →

Star Wars 1977

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Yes, Star Wars was originally released on May 25, 1977. Notice I did not say Star Wars: A New Hope because that was not what it was called then. Anyway, my children and I were talking recently about what made Star Wars such a cultural phenomenon. Looking back it’s really difficult to explain exactly what it was like when the first movie came out. That has less to do with the world at time than it does with the movie itself, I think. No one knew what to expect and what we got certainly wasn’t anything like what we might’ve imagined. So where to start?Read More →

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum

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Having grown up on the 1939 movie, literally every Christmas, it’s easy to forget that it was based upon a fairly lengthy series of children’s books by Frank L Baum. The first book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was first published on May 17, 1900 and was illustrated by W. W. Denslow, a long time collaborator of Baum.  Having finally gotten around to reading the original books in recent years, I thought it might be fun to celebrate by comparing a couple of images from the original book to the same scene from the 1939 movie. Dorothy in the tornado Okay, honestly those are nothingRead More →

love

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As many years as I’ve been reading romances I’ve never taken the time to look up the history of Valentine’s Day. So, I did some reading online and found it fascinating but one reference in particular caught my eye because I suddenly realized I might’ve stumbled across the origin of “scrapbooks” in a rather unexpected place. 😉 Check out this quote and see if you catch what I did: Americans probably began exchanging hand-made valentines in the early 1700s. In the 1840s, Esther A. Howland began selling the first mass-produced valentines in America. Howland, known as the “Mother of the Valentine,” made elaborate creations withRead More →

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I make no secret about my love for Lois & Clark. I saved this one for Valentines Day because it makes me smile. So curl up with your super bestie. Or a good book. Both work.Read More →

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I wanted to let everyone know I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. The week before Thanksgiving I was very under the weather with a flare up of a nagging problem I’ve had for awhile. By the time I was over that, or at least mostly over it, we found ourselves in the middle of an unexpected redecorating project. Which isn’t over yet and will probably take the Christmas holiday to complete. What with one thing and another I simply haven’t had the energy or time to even think about about posting anything for the last month. But I will be back afterRead More →

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Kind of belated but I just realized that Glenna Finley’s birthday was June 12. So I thought I’d send my best wishes out into the ether. And highlight a post on the site that talks about her backlist of books. And of course there is also the All My Favorites > Glenna Finley page. I definitely feel a reread of some her books coming very soon.Read More →