Odd Bits About Books
Do you like reading? Good, then we can be friends. Let me tell you about some of the things that I’ve found…
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The Narrative Use of Bareheadedness in Victorian Paranormal Fiction
Let’s talk about hats! Specifically in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. It’s a novella about a governess trying to save two adorable small children from the ghosts of two former servants. These two servants are seen as evil, damned horrors because of the illicit relationship they had when they were still alive,…
The Time To Beware Is Now!
Julius Caesar is not one of Shakespeare’s best known plays but I do like it. I don’t think Caesar is the main character though, it’s a bit more focused on Brutus. Marc Antony does get the best speech (at Caesar’s funeral), but even that is more about Brutus than Caesar. Come I to speak in…
Surprise Gifts
On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree. Honestly, it was a total surprise. I’d not put that on my Christmas list and I definitely hadn’t been dropping any hints or anything. I won’t say it was thoughtful exactly – I’ve never had any interest in…
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