The Girdle of Melian

iatus! (thank you to Magali Studer for the drop cap!) Following my happy announcement from a few months ago, life has gotten extra busy! I'm going to be rerunning a few classic posts on the blog from now until January; I'll miss some Insecure Writer's Support Group posts and checking in for A Round of Words in 80 Days , though I may try to note some updates in comments. And my Books Read in 2018 post will likely be delayed! is for ze rest of ze list! For this year's A to Z Challenge I featured books I've read based on the Reading Challenge . Today's post details all the categories that didn't fit under A to Y! A book with more than 500 pages: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas A classic romance: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell A book that became a movie: The Human Comedy by William Saroyan A book written by someone under 30: Liza of Lambeth by Somerset Maugham A funny book: Flowers for Mrs Harris by Paul G...

iatus! (thank you to Magali Studer for the drop cap!) Following my happy announcement from a few months ago, life has gotten extra busy! I'm going to be rerunning a few classic posts on the blog from now until January; I'll miss some Insecure Writer's Support Group posts and checking in for A Round of Words in 80 Days , though I may try to note some updates in comments. And my Books Read in 2018 post will likely be delayed! is for Z end of the list and the third and final part of the #TolkienCollection Photo Challenge ! Part one of the Tolkien photo challenge was under the letter K and answered the first seven questions. Part two of the Tolkien photo challenge was under the letter R and covered questions 8 through 14. Here's part three of the #TolkienCollection: 15. Item you consider to be a must-have for every collector -- authorised editions of the books, of course! I don't mind collecting other editions, but during my annual rereads I only eve...

iatus! (thank you to Magali Studer for the drop cap!) Following my happy announcement from a few months ago, the due date is fast approaching! I'm going to be rerunning a few classic posts on the blog from now until January; I'll miss some Insecure Writer's Support Group posts and checking in for A Round of Words in 80 Days , though I may try to note some updates in comments. And my Books Read in 2018 post will likely be delayed! ack in 2011, I held a week-long contest to celebrate the fact that I'd reached my 500th post , after nearly four years of blogging. At the time, I sorted many of my previous posts into groups, which made for easy referencing, especially of story material. (Also because I've never tagged my posts!) When I celebrated reaching my 1000th post during last year's A to Z Challenge there wasn't time to sort all the posts between 2011 and 2016. What better time than now? I’m actually going to go over 1,000, and collate all...

iatus! (thank you to Magali Studer for the drop cap!) Following my happy announcement from a few months ago, the due date is fast approaching! I'm going to be rerunning a few classic posts on the blog from now until January; I'll miss some Insecure Writer's Support Group posts and checking in for A Round of Words in 80 Days , though I may try to note some updates in comments. And my Books Read in 2018 post will likely be delayed! avourite ending lines from novels! Here are some of mine, inspired by Malcolm Campbell's recent post, Some of my favorite ending lines from novels . I like especially his choice of Orwell, Milne, and Mitchell. Joyce's Ulysses was also one of the first to leap to my mind (impossible to quote the whole sentence, of course): "...and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wal...

iatus! (thank you to Magali Studer for the drop cap!) Following my happy announcement from a few months ago, the due date is fast approaching! I'm going to be rerunning a few classic posts on the blog from now until January; I'll miss some Insecure Writer's Support Group posts and checking in for A Round of Words in 80 Days , though I may try to note some updates in comments. And my Books Read in 2018 post will likely be delayed! Meanwhile, I've been reading some good books! One is a classic, Catalina by Somerset Maugham. The other is a new release by Kait Nolan ! "Just a fling," she said... Tess Peyton wanted to do something fun and reckless and wholly out of character. A steamy weekend with a Scotsman seems like a plan. When her Scotsman turns out to be a good Southern boy, that's a minor deviation. Then one night turns to two, two turns to more, and suddenly she knows she's in way over her head. This is why one should always...

oals time already! (thanks to Magali Studer for the lovely drop cap!) We're entering the final round of A Round of Words in 80 Days (time flies when you look back!), so let's see how I did... Here are my goals for ROW80 Round Three , with the completed ones marked: Blog and craft-related goals mail completed craft projects -- done! complete current knitting project and send -- done! update list of books read catch up on blog comments! schedule advance posts for during vacation Open for guest posts! If anyone would like to write a guest post for this blog, please let me know! It's always fun having visitors, and exciting to see the comments coming in while I'm away. Current writing goals enter handwritten edits to first three chapters of Captive of the Sea and Out of the Water prepare synopsis and query letter for Captive of the Sea edit synopsis and query letter for Out of the Water enter handwritten edits to The Handful of Time (working t...

ere's another knitting project I've completed! Besides the one or two projects that have sat on needles for too long now, and have no hope of ever being completed, this means I haven't any knitting in progress at the moment. I'd like to knit some mittens for winter, and start a great big ambitious Fairisle project, but we shall see. (Thank you to Magali for the drop cap!) Besides, that wasn't part of my original ROW80 goals! Here's sort of how I phrased my September goals on thelitforum : Things I think about: Knitting -- I have ideas for two new projects, and one project that's almost completed. No pressure on this goal [g] Editing -- two novels ( The Handful of Time , Captive of the Sea ) still need to be worked on. Plus there's that short story anthology idea... Not a priority right now! Writing -- I should still be plotting Amelie's story in preparation for NaNoWriMo, but all I'm really doing is writing the new novel...