Happy New Year!

Well, this is a bit premature...but Happy New Year everyone!  Hoping it is filled with family, love, peace, joy and laughter.

Hello Again!

Hello everyone!  I hope you all had a very merry Christmas!  It's such a lovely time to be with your family.

I must apologise for my prolonged abscence!  As usual, life has been pretty busy lately.

My Christmas was lovely, as I spent it with my dear family.  I was also pleasantly surprised by presents that I was not expecting, including a book (of sorts) that opens and is actually a box.  I have decided to make it my special place for any letters  I receive.

I have started a Tumblr and a Pinterest, which are both very enjoyable, but there are certain aspects of both which makes them not quite as wonderful as they could be.  However, I have filled my pages/board with lots of pretty things.

I have also been thinking about my New Year's Resolution.  I was thinking about how nice it would be to have a year without all of the junk the world is throwing at us.  So, I have resolved only to read books that I know are good and have no undesirable content in them, and watch movies that are good (PluggedIn is a great resource for that!).  So I'm going to (basically) try to isolate myself from the unsavoury side of our culture and focus only on what is good and beautiful.  I usually try to anyway, but this coming year I'm really going to put my foot down.

Now a little warning about this upcoming semester.  I don't think I will have much time for blogging, so I may disappear again for lengthy amounts of time, but rest assured I will return!

I also need to make a post with pictures of my new books!  I have been book shopping (as usual) and have found some real treasures.  So those will be coming...eventually.

That's all for now, so Happy New Year, everyone!  What are your resolutions?  Do you have any?

Winter Has Arrived With a Flourish!

My Top Ten Favourite Books #3

Little Women has been a treasured classic for many girls ever since it was first published, and I am one of them.  Not only because I can relate to it so well, but also because there are so many good things to learn from it.
I see similarities between myself and all of the March sisters; I am artistic and slightly vain like Amy (I also wish my nose was smaller), I write and secretly hope for adventure like Jo, but I also want a home with children like Meg, and I can play the piano but can only hope I am half as good as dear little Beth.  Thank goodness my mum is as kind and loving as Marmee.
I live in a family of four (although two of them are brothers, not sisters) and it really is like that - everyone is different, but everyone has the same inside jokes and lovely memories.  We even had our own newspaper once, just like the Marches.  (I was writer and editor, but at least everyone read it...)
There is so much good in this 'little book'!  I think it should be on everyone's must - read list.
I loved being a part of the March girls' lives; play acting, laughing with Laurie, writing tragic romances, struggling to be good, but most of all realizing the importance of family and friends.
I laughed and cried my way through it and will never tire of re-reading it.  I think that's what makes a book really special; it's so good you will always want to read it again.
Suffice to say that Louisa May Alcott wrote this book from her heart, and it shows.  There is so much heart in Little Women that it overflows into the reader and leaves you feeling as if you've found another place to call home.