Marvelous Monday is here! The concept is simple and stress-free. I’m inviting my tea party friends – readers and friends – to post good things in their life on Mondays. Grab a macaroon and a cup of tea and join us. Or a cupcake. Whatever suits your fancy. Let’s dish about positive things! This post contains affiliate banner links. If you click a link and make a purchase, Poe in Wonderland will earn a small commission for the referral at no cost to you. All opinions are my own and I only recommend products and services I think will add value to my readers. Read more about affiliates and disclaimers here. Photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash One book that I’m really enjoying is 101 Thinks You Didn’t Know About Jane Austen. I know quite a bit about one of my favorite authors, but this book delves into deep detail about all aspects of…
Alice in Wonderland is an enduring tale that began as an oral story on July 4, 1862, and was written and delivered by hand to the original Alice – Alice Liddell – on Christmas in 1864. The real-life story of the book is from a summer’s day where Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) rowed his neighbors the 3 Liddell sisters across a lake with a friend. Alice implored him to entertain them, and so he did with what would become a most famous story. Carroll wrote the tale down and illustrated it as a gift to Alice when she was 12 (possibly 11). The Victorians were fascinated by childlike innocence and you couldn’t find such a nonsensical book without a child. For me, it is one of the earliest memories I have of a favorite book. My mother read it to me. I own a 1976 copy she read from…
9 quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald the writer.
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Join our email and newsletter list today and receive a free printable bookmark. We change them out monthly, and they feature an image and a literary quote. If you love bookmarks and literature, one of these may be up your alley or in your wheelhouse! Join today at the link on our page or here. This is a sample. You will receive the full bookmark upon signup. And, as always, we wish you happy reading! This post contains affiliate links. If you click a link and make a purchase, Poe in Wonderland will earn a small commission for the referral at no cost to you You might enjoy our post Jane Austen FAQS and A Quote from Mansfield Park and Fanny Price . Start A Blogging Business 5 Day Crash Course with this link. Credit to: It’s a Lovely Life.com
Fanny Price quote from Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park on the calmness of nature.
Book obsessions are moods we fall into all the time. When you’re looking for your next book, it’s fun to hunt it down. We LOVE shopping in stores but also reading the book newsletters we receive. Bookshop.org supports a collection of independent book stores, and it’s fun to read their recommendations. In fact, we happen to find our next reads on their lists a lot of the time. We’d encourage you to check out their site while we link to 4 books to check out below. One just came out in February 2021 and the other 3 are from 2020 and 2019. Different genres with different moods. Biographical and Historical The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation By Anna Malaika TubbsPublished February 2021 Description Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin’s son James, about Alberta King’s son Martin…
This post contains affiliate links. If you click a link and make a purchase, Poe in Wonderland will earn a small commission for the referral at no cost to you. by Lewis Carroll from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland “Repeat `You are old, Father William,'” said the Caterpillar. Alice folded her hands, and began: — “You are old, father William,” the young man said, “And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head — Do you think, at your age, it is right?” “In my youth,” father William replied to his son, “I feared it would injure the brain; But now that I’m perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.” “You are old,” said the youth, “as I mentioned before, And have grown most uncommonly fat; Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the…
Imagine walking in an alleyway in Shanghai where people are passing, windows are full of residents going about everyday chores, and shops are busy when you hear a “Miaow”. You can’t locate its source anywhere until you finally look upwards to see a cat perched atop a fruit shop. Marcel Heijnen, a Dutch photographer, experienced this very thing last fall and took the stealthy kitty’s photo. It’s now included in his latest book Spot the Shop Cat that came out this month. Along with Australian illustrator Stephen Case, the duo tells the tale of Spot, a cartoon cat who lives in a dried goods shop. Hong Kong-based Australian illustrator Stephen Case (left) and Dutch photographer Marcel Heijnen show off their new book Spot the Shop Cat in Tsing Yi, Hong Kong. Photo: Winson Wong Meet Spot, the cartoon cat who leaps from page to page as he recounts daily life…