Tag: Poetry

• What I’ve Been Reading This Week

  May 25, 2018

  Lifestyle

  90s movies, fairy tales, Jane Austen, lit hub, movies, Poetry, Shakespeare, Shakespeare on film, Snow White

  I subscribe to lots of things–probably too many–and as such whenever I go on vacation (or don’t feel like reading things), I develop a huge backlog of reading. While I was cleaning this week, I’d take I-can’t-stand-it-one-more-minute breaks that I told myself were productive because I was clearing out the back log of feminist newsletters,…

• 10 Really Good Books with Fewer than 2000 ratings on Goodreads

  July 5, 2016

  Top Ten Tuesday

  fiction, nonfiction, Poetry, short stories, underrated books

  Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from the Broke and the Bookish. I know I have been very absent from the blog in the past month or so, but I promise I will be better about that in the future. There are some changes coming to the blog, but I will talk about that…

• Baking for Bookworms: Apple Cake from Sylvia Plath’s The Collected Poems

  February 19, 2016

  Baking for Bookworms

  apple cake, baking, baking for bookworms, Poetry, Sylvia Plath, upside down cakr

  I was a little surprised to find anything I could cook from in Plath’s poems. She’s not exactly a poet you associate with down home cooking. But luckily there was one food that immediately jumped out, and that was apple cake. The mention of apple cake is from her 1959 poem “Point Shirley”, which is…

• A Year Reading Women Authors

  February 9, 2016

  Reading Challenge

  books, Female Authors, female writers, fiction, nonfiction, novels, Poetry, Reading, women authors, women writers

  Above: The first book of my year reading only women authors. As I said at the beginning of my challenge, I tend to read women writers in equal measure to male writers. Using Goodreads to measure, I found that I tended to be split down the middle with my reading the three years previous to…

• Women Writers Reading Challenge: #68-75 The End

  January 14, 2016

  Reading Challenge

  Annie Proulx, audio books, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Kostova, fiction, From Whitechapel, Hilary Mantel, k and Angela Carter, Kelly Link, kindle, Magic For Beginners, Melanie Clegg, nonfiction, Poetry, short stories, Sylvia Plath, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, The Shipping News, The Swan Thieves, We Two: Victoria and Albert, Wives and Daughters

    At first I was going to post the rest of the reading challenge one book at a time, like I did for all the rest of the books, but then I decided that would take weeks to get them all out there, and meanwhile I wouldn’t be able to start posting this year’s books.…

• Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books I Wouldn’t Mind Finding Under My Tree

  December 22, 2015

  Poetry

  books for Christmas, fiction, graphic novel, holiday wish list, JRR Tolkien, literary wish list, Lord of the Rings, memoir, nonfiction, Oscar Wilde, Poetry, Princess Diaries, Top Ten Tuesday, Walt Whitman

  Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature  brought to you by the Broke and the Bookish. I think my mom was heartbroken when I asked her if Santa was real in the second grade. She loved the magic of it. She told me that while Santa and fairies might not be real, the magic of…