At 15 years of age, young Jane Austen has big dreams of seeing the world and writing great novels, but has hardly traveled beyond her own ...

Last week in my '8 Bookish or Not-So-Bookish Thoughts' post, I mentioned my sword-fighting classes had started again. In the comment...

           Bookish and Not-So-Bookish Thoughts is a weekly blogging event hosted by  Bookishly Boisterous . It allows book bloggers (and no...

The wealthy young Englishman Louis Trevelyan visits the British colony of the Mandarin Islands. Here he meets and falls in love with the ...

Love Labour's Lost  is one of Shakespeare's less well known comedies. In 2000, Kenneth Branagh, Shakespearean director and actor ...

A to Z Bookish Questions Borrowed from Kara at  Flowers of Quiet Happiness Author you've read the most books from : I'm not sure...

Jessamine Barry, dutiful daughter of a country vicar, is tired of being 'the good girl'. After all, it has not earned her the hea...