Tag: reading

  • Forget Me Not (You Already Have)

    Each year, happy mourners lay summer to rest, its body entombed in burning soil, and plan for colder months. How do we forget, year after year, that the sky packs its bags every winter? The smog hides us from the eyes of God and the arms of the sun. And it makes us forget. →

  • How Mr. Darcy Proposed Under Meg’s Umbrella In Hogwarts

    I bought an umbrella from China. A frilly edged, white and pink parasol with a neat wooden handle, glossy and polished. Walking to class in the morning with the sun trying to burn my skin, I had a sudden vision of Meg going to the Gardiners’ house for the weekend, and deploring the umbrella Mrs. March gets… →

  • Books Will Never Judge Your Cover…

    I trail my fingers down the leather clad spine, ridged and looped with gold thread. The pages are a buttery yellow, smoothed and soft. There’s a clinging delicate scent, of old ink and new desires. The tale remains the same and yet, it makes some laugh, and some it makes sigh.  Ah, old friend. We… →

  • Ginny Weasley, Meet Real Life

    So, my best friend and I (in a particularly twilight zonish bout of insomnia), were complaining about how girls in books never have to go through regular life. Okay sure, so they have a lot on their plates, what with Dark Lords, Dragons, and lumpy spaghetti. But as with the Harry Potter series, there’s magic,… →

  • The Angel Who Broke A Wing…And Wobbled

    My last post was all about romance novels in the ‘Fallen Angel’ category; quite a bitter little post I must admit. But it did inspire me to imagine what I would write about, if I were ever to step into the divinely murky waters of fallen angels and their world on earth. First off, my main lead… →

  • Twilight, Or The Idiot’s Guide To Flirting With McSparkles and McHairy

    Write a summary of the book you’ve always wanted to write for the back cover of its dust jacket. About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was someone’s weird sparkly idea of a vampire (dude SPARKLES…Dracula would stake himself). Second, there was a part of him – that thirsted for my blood..umm obviously because he’s… →