Wordless Wednesday- 10/30/19

Gardner, Daniel. The Three Witches from Macbeth (Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne; Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire; Anne Seymour Damer). 1775. Gouache and chalk. National Portrait Gallery, London, UK. 

Wordless Wednesday- 10/09/19

Tissot, James. October. 1877. Oil on canvas. Montreal Museum of  Fine Arts, Montreal, CA.

Top Ten Tuesday: Quotes About Autumn

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme created by The Broke and the Bookish blog, and now hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week, I’m going off topic to share some Quotes About Autumn     “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of...

Top Ten Tuesday: Fall 2018 TBR List

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme created by The Broke and the Bookish blog, and now hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is: Books on my Fall 2018 TBR List Fall is my favorite season and my favorite time of the year to read all the gothic, atmospheric, creepy, and suspenseful...

R.I.P XIII Sign-Up and Reading Plans

It's time for one of my favorite reading events of the year: Readers Imbibing Peril, aka R.I.P. This year marks the thirteenth (!!) round of the challenge, which is all about enjoying books that could be classified as: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Dark Fantasy, Gothic, Horror, and/or Supernatural. The fun starts September 1st and runs until October 31st. You...

Wordless Wednesday- 11/29/17

Sisley, Alfred. November Afternoon. 1881. Oil on canvas. Private collection (?)

Thanksgiving Readathon Wrap-Up

I didn't get as much reading done as I had hoped during the Thanksgiving Readathon, but I really enjoyed the books I did read.   I finished Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (445 pages), and loved every minute of it. I also read about half of the delightful Snowdrift and Other Stories by Georgette Heyer. My cold struck...

Thank You!

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow USians! (And happy Thursday to everyone else) A huge thank you to all of you who read, comment, and follow along here ~Jessie

Wordless Wednesday- 11/22/17

Rockwell, Norman. Freedom from Want. 1943. Oil on canvas. Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge Massachusetts.

Thanksgiving Readathon Sign-Up and TBR

This Wednesday kicks off the Thanksgiving Readathon hosted by Ottavia at Novels and Nonfiction and Jackie from Death at Tsundoku. It's a laid-back readathon with the goal of reading as much as you can from Wednesday, November 22nd through Sunday, November 26th. It looks like the the cold I've been fighting off is finally catching...