And the winner of What Maisie Knew by Henry James is…..
Ty W(follows on Twitter).
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Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to Viking/Penguin for making this giveaway possible!
If you haven’t gone out to watch the film yet, do. This isn’t one that you want to miss! A modern retelling of a classic featuring the sexy and talented Alexander Skarsgård? I’m in!
The classics are making a vivacious come back to the silver screen this year! This year we have seen modern takes on old favorites with such blockbusters as Anna Karenina, Les Misérables and The Great Gatsby.
The Henry James classic, What Maisie Knew, has also been made into a feature film!
Though there hasn’t been as much buzz about this film as some of the others, it has been highly praised by the critics after its debut at the Toronto Film Festival in Sept 2012.
The movie has now been released to the masses in May and continues to garner much critical praise for the performances of Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgård, Steve Coogan, and the young Onata Aprile.
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Haven’t we all fantasized about acting on pure impulse? Have you ever thought about removing all filters and just saying exactly what you think about someone?
How about throwing a drink at someone because you honestly can’t stand to listen to them for a minute longer? Sure, we all have but for the most part we control our impulses and the filters remain in place.
Luckily we can live vicariously through some of our favorite literary characters! Meet Julian English. Julian is going to act on those impulses and what follows is a train wreck of self destruction.
This is a story about how easily you can fall from grace when you give into rash behavior and you take for granted your “innocents” and become arrogant instead. Julian manages to destroy his life in a matter of three days.
Continue reading “Review: Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara”
Trapped in a love less marriage to a man with good social standing, Anna Karenina does the unthinkable–she enters into a doomed, passionate love affair with another man.
Society will torment her, her husband will ridicule her, but her own guilt will drive her to the breaking point.
With one of the most memorable opening scenes in western literature, Anna Karenina is a literary masterpiece about life, passion, and love.
This lengthy novel is spread over eight parts featuring two alternating protagonists, Konstantin Levin and Anna Karenina.
The elegant and proper Anna, is married to a high-ranking government official, Alexei Karenin. For the past eight years they have maintained a fragile facade. On the outside their marriage appears amiable but in the absence of love, there is nothing but respect and understanding to fill the missing pieces.
Beware the Ravenswood!
Sir Walter Scott’s, The Bride of Lammermoor is a must read for fans of the genre….a classic gothic romance! This is your ultimate indulgence gothic romance fans…honest and truly.
This ridiculously over the top tale has it all…witches, women going mad, a family fallen from grace, degenerative castles, ruined fortunes, Byronic heros, star crossed lovers, a dark prophecy, ominous symbology….everything! It is MacBeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Wuthering Heights all rolled into one.
The novel is introduced as a tale based on a true story, set in Scotland at the time of Queen Anne (early 1700’s). Lord Ravenswood is dead and all that remains of the Ravenswood family is Master Ravenswood (Edgar) and the ruin known as Wolf’s Carg castle.
The Ravenswood family blames their demise on Sir William Ashton who profited at the Ravenswood’s expense….the Ravenswoods have been stripped of their titles after the rebellion and have subsequently lost their estates/fortunes as a result of a legal scheme gone awry. Continue reading “Review: The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott”
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