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– Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
#book quote of the day#emmuska orczy#baroness orczy#the scarlet pimpernel#classic books#Hungarian-British author#adventure#20th century#romance#Marguerite Blakeney#Armand Chauvelin#Percy Blakeney#book quotes#book recommendations
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Recently Read: The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
3.75 stars
#the scarlet pimpernel#emmuska orczy#books#just finished#booklr#bookblogger#bookblr#book blog#book photography
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PLEASE, if you know The Scarlet Pimpernel, go read my favorite short story in the entire series, it’s so funny. It’s called A Battle of Wits and is available on Project Gutenberg here.
#arguably the funniest appearance of The Poem#The Scarlet Pimpernel#Baroness Emmuska Orczy#book recs
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"...my own dear lady's quick, intuitive brain..." @RenardPress #ReadIndies #LadyMolly
I can hardly believe it’s the end of February – and #ReadIndies! Luckily, we’ve had an extra day this year, and to round up the month, Lizzy and I have been buddy reading a book from one of our favourite micro-presses – Renard! It’s a reprint of a fascinating collection of classic crime stories which I’d not come across before; and it turned out to be a real treat. The title is “Lady Molly of…
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books read in 2023
1) get a life, chloe brown -> talia hibbert: jan 1 - 3
2) the night circus -> erin morgenstern (reread): jan 9 - 11
3) lost in the never woods -> aiden thomas: jan 6 - 15
4) on earth we're briefly gorgeous -> ocean vuong: jan 12 - 15
5) clap when you land -> elizabeth acevedo: jan 17 - 18
6) comfort me with apples -> catherynne m. valente: jan 18
7) not here to be liked -> michelle quach: jan 19 - 23
8) night sky with exit wounds -> ocean vuong (reread): jan 25
9) time is a mother -> ocean vuong: jan 27
10) anatomy: a love story -> dana schwartz: jan 28 - 30
11) babel, or the necessity of violence: an arcane history of the oxford translaters' revolution -> r.f. kuang: jan 24 - feb 2
12) next of kin -> hannah bonam-young: feb 3 - 4
13) tokyo ever after -> emiko jean: feb 5 - 6
14) once upon a broken heart -> stephanie garber (reread): feb 2 - 6
15) the ballad of never after -> stephanie garber: feb 7
16) tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow -> gabrielle zevin: feb 7 - 11
17) tokyo dreaming -> emiko jean: feb 11 - 13
18) the cruel prince -> holly black (reread): feb 15 - 16
19) the no-show -> beth o'leary: feb 17 - 20
20) time is a mother -> ocean vuong (reread): feb 20
21) sweet bean paste -> durian sukegawa: feb 22
22) before the coffee gets cold -> toshikazu kawaguchi: feb 24
23) the wicked king -> holly black (reread): feb 23 - 24
24) the queen of nothing -> holly black (reread): feb 25 - 26
25) tales from the café -> toshikazu kawaguchi: feb 26 - 27
26) daisy jones & the six -> taylor jenkins reid (reread): feb 28 - mar 2
27) before your memory fades -> toshikazu kawaguchi: feb 27 - mar 4
28) ninth house -> leigh bardugo: mar 3 - 6
29) hell bent -> leigh bardugo: mar 7 - 9
30) a good girl's guide to murder -> holly jackson: mar 10 - 11
31) portrait of a thief -> grace d. li: mar 12 - 15
32) good girl, bad blood -> holly jackson: mar 15 - 18
33) the last children of tokyo -> yōko tawada: mar 19
34) tiny pretty things -> sona charaipotra & dhonielle clayton: mar 20 - 21
35) the youthful you who was so beautiful -> jiu yue xi (reread): mar 22
36) shiny broken pieces -> sona charaipotra & dhonielle clayton: mar 23 - 24
37) the scarlet pimpernel -> emmuska orczy: mar 25
38) as good as dead -> holly jackson: mar 26 - 28
39) addicted to you -> krista ritchie & becca ritchie: mar 29 - 30
40) one of us is lying -> karen m. mcmanus: mar 30 - 31
41) kill joy -> holly jackson: apr 2
42) carrie soto is back -> taylor jenkins reid: apr 1 - 3
43) human acts -> han kang: apr 4 - 6
44) tender is the flesh -> agustina bazterrica: apr 6
45) this time it's real -> ann liang: apr 6 - 10
46) idol, burning -> rin usami: apr 11
47) i'll give you the sun -> jandy nelson: apr 12 - 14
48) the boundless -> kenneth oppel: apr 14 - 17
49) the great gatsby -> f. scott fitzgerald (reread): apr 17
50) beautiful little fools -> jillian cantor: apr 18 - 19
51) schoolgirl -> osamu dazai: apr 20
52) the witch haven -> sasha peyton smith: apr 22 - 23
53) the witch hunt -> sasha peyton smith: apr 24 - 27
54) a little life -> hanya yanagihara: apr 28 - 30
55) beach read -> emily henry (reread): may 1 - 2
56) no longer human -> osamu dazai: may 2 - 3
57) my dark vanessa -> kate elizabeth russell: may 3 - 4
58) the setting sun -> osamu dazai: may 5 - 6
59) the bridge kingdom -> danielle l. jensen: may 5 - 8
60) king of pride -> ana huang: may 8 - 10
61) happy place -> emily henry: may 11
62) the vegetarian -> han kang: may 10 - 12
63) the red palace -> june hur: may 14 - 17
64) the traitor queen -> danielle l. jensen: may 13 - 22
65) the sky is everywhere -> jandy nelson: may 22 - 23
66) beartown -> fredrik backman: may 24 - 25
67) deathless -> catherynne m. valente: may 26 - 28
68) notes on an execution -> danya kukafka: may 29 - 30
69) once upon a k-prom -> kat cho: may 24 - 30
70) almond -> sohn won-pyung: may 30
71) the white book -> han kang: may 31
72) my mechanical romance -> alexene farol follmuth: may 31
73) a room with a view -> e.m forster: jun 4
74) the poppy war -> r.f kuang: jun 5 - 6
75) the dragon republic -> r.f kuang: jun 7 - 10
76) the drowning faith -> r.f kuang: jun 11
77) the burning god -> r.f kuang: jun 11 - 15
78) emma -> jane austen: may 30 - jun 16
79) greek lessons -> han kang: jun 16 - 18
80) when marnie was there -> joan g. robinson: jun 18 - 20
81) bandstand -> richard oberacker: jun 21
82) white nights -> fyodor dostoevsky: jun 21
83) twisted love -> ana huang: jun 20 - 22
84) twisted games -> ana huang: jun 27 - 28
85) the bloody chamber -> angela carter: jun 28 - 29
86) my deepest secret -> hanza art: jun 22 - 30
87) coraline -> neil gaiman: jun 30
88) twisted hate -> ana huang: jul 1 - 3
89) sadie -> courtney summers: jul 4 - 5
90) twisted lies -> ana huang: jul 5 - 6
91) take a hint, dani brown -> talia hibbert: jul 6 - 7
92) better than the movies -> lynn painter: jul 16 - 17
93) act your age, eve brown -> talia hibbert: jul 18 - 20
94) beyond the story: 10 - year record of bts -> kang myeong-seok & bts: jul 17 - 20
95) love and other words -> christina lauren: jul 19 - 22
96) diary of a void -> emi yagi: jul 23
97) in five years -> rebecca serle: jul 24
98) us against you -> fredrik backman: jul 24 - 25
99) sirena -> donna jo napoli: jul 26
100) small things like these -> claire keegan: jul 26 - 28
101) exit, pursued by bear -> e.k. johnston: jul 28
102) red, white, & royal blue -> casey mcquiston (reread): jul 29 - 31
103) conveniance store woman -> sayaka murata: jul 31
104) the hurting kind -> ada limon: aug 2
105) one true loves -> taylor jenkins reid: aug 2 - 3
106) the deep -> rivers solomon: aug 6 - 7
107) all the lovers in the night -> mieko kawakami: aug 9
108) caraval -> stephanie garber: aug 6 - 10
109) we hunt the flame -> hafsah faizal: aug 16 - 18
110) we free the stars -> hafsah faizal: aug 18 - 19
111) i'm glad my mom died -> jennette mccurdy: aug 20
112) the ballad of songbirds and snakes -> suzanne collins: aug 21 - 22
113) kim jiyoung, born 1982 -> cho nam-joo: aug 22
114) legendary -> stephanie garber: aug 11 - 24
115) king of wrath -> ana huang: aug 23 - 24
116) the sisterhood of the traveling pants -> ann brashares: aug 27
117) out on a limb -> hannah bonam-young: aug 29 - 31
118) the winners -> fredrick backman: aug 1 - 31
119) the second summer of sisterhood -> ann brashares: aug 28 - 31
120) girls in pants: the third summer of the sisterhood -> ann brashares: sep 4 - 5
121) forever in blue: the fourth summer of the sisterhood -> ann brashares: sep 5
122) strange the dreamer -> laini taylor: sep 3 - 9
123) crying in h mart -> michelle zauner: sep 9 - 10
124) sisterhood everlasting -> ann brashares: sep 7 - 11
125) finale -> stephanie garber: sep 13 - 14
126) little thieves -> margaret owen: sep 11 - 16
127) les misérables -> victor hugo (reread): apr 3 - sep 18
128) business or pleasure -> rachel lynn solomon: sep 17 - 19
129) out there -> kate folk: sep 23 - 24
130) wuthering heights -> emily brontë: sep 18 - 24
131) painted devils -> margaret owen: sep 20 - 27
132) the foxhole court -> nora sakavic: sep 24 - 27
133) the raven king -> nora sakavic: sep 27 - 29
134) the hate u give -> angie thomas: sep 29 - oct 2
135) the king’s men -> nora sakavic: sep 30 - oct 3
136) the dead romantics -> ashley poston: oct 4 - 5
137) a discovery of witches -> deborah harkness: oct 6 - 12
138) mexican gothic -> silvia moreno-garcia: oct 13 - 14
139) the haunting of hill house -> shirley jackson: oct 15 - 18
140) the girl from the other side (vol. 1 - 11) -> nagabe: oct 19
151) fourth wing -> rebecca yarros: oct 22 - 26
152) king of greed -> ana huang: oct 26 - 29
153) yellowface -> r.f. kuang: oct 30 - 31
154) a curse for true love -> stephanie garber: nov 1 - 3
155) a study in charlotte -> brittany cavallaro: nov 5 - 7
156) dracula -> bram stoker: may 5 - nov 8
157) the joy luck club -> amy tan: sep 9 - nov 9
158) the murder of roger ackroyd -> agatha christie: nov 9 - 10
159) the last of august -> brittany cavallaro: nov 10 - 12
160) kamila knows best -> farah heron: nov 12 - 13
161) the case for jamie -> brittany cavallaro: nov 14 - 15
162) a question for holmes -> brittany cavallaro: nov 16 - 17
163) howl’s moving castle -> diana wynne jones (reread): nov 17 - 18
164) if we were villains -> m. l. rio (reread): nov 18 - 19
165) masters of death -> olivie blake: nov 20 - 22
166) jane eyre -> charlotte brontë (reread): nov 22 - 29
167) the name drop -> susan lee: dec 2 - 3
168) divine rivals -> rebecca ross: dec 6 - 7
169) the lightning thief -> rick riordan (reread): dec 9 - 11
170) the sea of monsters -> rick riordan (reread): dec 12 - 13
171) the titan’s curse -> rick riordan (reread): dec 14
172) the battle of the labyrinth -> rick riordan (reread): dec 16 - 18
173) the last olympian -> rick riordan (reread): dec 18 - 19
174) a study in drowning -> ava reid: dec 23 - 29
175) little women -> louisa may alcott (reread): dec 21 - 29
176) shadow of night -> deborah harkness: nov 1 - dec 30
177) the upside of falling -> alex light: dec 30
178) slade house -> david mitchell: dec 31
179) much ado about nothing -> william shakespeare: dec 31
180) romeo and juliet -> william shakespeare (reread): dec 31
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okay look I'm not going to post a lot about it, but please i beg you: if you haven't experienced The Scarlet Pimpernel either as
the original novel (public domain ebook here)
or the musical (playlist here)
or the film (1934 version [captioned!], or the 1982 version [with young Ian McKellen!])
Then do it.
This story is so amazingly good, and Baroness Emmuska Orczy gave us the OG "hero in a disguise who's alter-ego is a brainless playboy." Without Sir Percy Blakeney, we'd possibly have no Batman or Iron Man or dozens of other familiar heroes.
The original novel is from the perspective of Marguerite St. Just, a beautiful and clever French actress caught up in the Revolution, who meets this idiot fop Sir Percy and for reasons she can't even explain to herself: marries him. Goes so far as to fall in love with him. What she doesn't know is that behind the moronic facade is a sharp-witted man who is using a mask of "stupid British rich man" to cover for his secret escapades as the Scarlet Pimpernel -- rescuing people out of France who have been doomed to the guillotine.
There's swashbuckling, there's betrayal and broken hearts, there's loyalty of "even if she'll never know who I really am, even if I can never trust her, I will love her until the day I die", there's espionage and intrigue, there's a villainous French revolutionary who's definitely in no way similar to Les Mis' Javert (<-he was played by Terrence Mann in the Broadway musical; Mann is also well known for his portrayal of Javert. The characters are... very similar lol). It's got poetic justice and witty banter and nobility and... gah. It's just such a good story.
Personally I recommend the novel (from Marguerite's POV) or the 1982 film (splits between Percy and Marguerite). The musical is amazing, but unfortunately has been off-stage for a long time. (They were trying for a revival... and then 2020 happened.)
...anyway, yeah, now back to our regularly scheduled posting but I got on a TSP kick again today and had to go off about it for a moment.
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August 2023 wrapup
I just realized I haven't posted this yet.... Maybe it's because most of this month was fairly mediocre? Or at least not as good as I was expecting... I'm happy with the amount of books I've read, but I was hoping for some of them to wow me, and most of the books didn't manage to do that.
favorite of the month: Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
nonfiction of the month (1): Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
classics (1): Sir Percy Leads the Band by Emmuska Orczy
poetry (1): The Fire of Joy edited by Clive James
graphic novel (1): Salt Magic by Hope Larson and Rebecca Mock
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10 + 29 + 45 for the book ask? ✨ Also any recommendations you want to share, as a freebie!
Thank you for the ask❤️
10- Favourite classical literature?
This is so hard!!!! I love classic lit and many of my all time favs are classics. I definitely tend to lean towards the gothic classics like Frankenstein, Dracula & the Picture of Dorian Gray. Jane Austen’s Emma is also one of my favs, and the works of Alexandre Dumas.
29- How many books on your “to be read” list?
Roughly 200💀
45- What books would you sell your soul to get a movie/TV adaptation of?
I have always hoped that one day someone would make a beautiful and faithfully adapted version of Dracula. I think it could be really cool and I feel like there aren’t any adaptations yet which truly capture what’s so great about the original.
I also just would love to see more great fantasy shows and movies in the world and I think that the gentleman bastard sequence by scott lynch has so much potential to be an incredible and cinematic adaptation. The worldbuilding is so cool and the characters are impossible not to love.
And just for u, beloved mutual, I recommend The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy (it’s a fun little classic set in the French Revolution)
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5 for Fallen Skies, 39, 47 for Fallen Skies <3 <3 <3
AHHH REX THANK YOU!! *v* 💚💚 taking writer asks here!
5. What do you wish someone would ask you about Fallen Skies? Answer it now!
You can have two things about Fallen Skies! As a treat.
a) Maelune was in part inspired by Kathy Bates (her vibes are immaculate), and in part by Margo Martindale. For a lot of her dialogue I hear Margo's voice in my head when I write.
b) Ask me why I'm so bitter about Burning Shores DLC. Ask me why I'm mad as hell that an official DLC came out months and months after I started posting my own fic about an Ancestor from the Old World turned flesh, who abused his Ancestor status to amass a Quen cult following to do his dirty work--including but not limited to reanimating a Horus as part of his master plan--NOT TO MENTION the amusement park as a major plot set piece, and insect machines as one of the new elements. Guerrilla Games can fight me behind the Shoney's.
39. Is any aspect of your writing process inspired by other writers or people? If so, who?
Well. Yes. I'm going to be pretentious and cite Charles Dickens, Emmuska Orczy, and Robert Louis Stevenson as early-life inspirations for writing style. HOWEVER. I have also met some incredibly talented writers in fandom spaces, including the fantastic @poetikat, whose writing style inspired me to work on packing more punch into more concise narratives (which helped me immensely, because, like Dickens, I generally tend to write like I'm being paid by the word).
47. If Fallen Skies was a pair of shoes, what kind would it be? Describe the shoes.
PFFahaha, oh god. I think, if Fallen Skies was a pair of shoes, it would be more like the Erie leg-wraps - you won't suspect a thing until you're wrapped in a chokehold in the middle of it, probably covered in blood.
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Canonwelding The Scarlet Pimpernel
As always constructive feedback is welcome.
Big Finish's, "Plight of the Pimpernel" introduction of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's legend/meme character, "The Scarlet Pimpernel" active from 1789 to 1794 played by four people, (Argana, the 6th Doctor, Peri, and Oliver) active throughout the, "Reign of Terror" 1789 to 1794 can easily be intergrated into Faction Paradox canon. Argana's obcession with the books means he would have tried to folow the book series's canon as practically as possible meaning some of it's details can be used aswell.
"Several prominent alchemists and engineers loyal to the Chamber and it's allies lost their lives in France, a catastrophe which the Chamber believed, (in typically self obsessed fashion) to be deliberately instigated just to spite it's members", The Analytical Engine, The Book of the War.
After becoming aware of, (possibly through the Prince of Wales, the future George IV) and survieling his activities it's likely that The Service would have recruited Baronet Sir Percy Blakeney, (Argana) in late 1789/early 1790 and later Oliver in 1793 as an agent so that they could get some of their aristocratic allies out alive, (likely Shadow Directory agents, though in the end very few) amongst those he rescued. They no doubt offered and provided assistance but this would have been limited and the League of minor aristocrats was self sufficient anyway.
Writing possibilities
While alot of the book series's stories and details can be reused and or referenced any author must bare in mind the changes created by the Big Finish audio, (eg: No Marguerite and the inclsusion of the audio's historical characters) and the added details of The Service. Realistically speaking it would essentially be Christmas Special type story with the Star Chamber and Service appearing as framework cameo details.
Whether he qualifies for the Cult of Celebrity Death is unknown.
Notes
Oliver probably took on the persona of Percy Blakeney along with that of the Scarlet Pimpernel and may have eeded more direct Star Chamber asistance then his predecessor if ony to maintain his new triple identity.
Argana didn't mention his Service recruitment to the Sixth Doctor and Peri becuase it's limited assistance and secret nature meant that for the League it didn't matter for the most part and the Argana obviously had other more important secrets on his mind.
#faction paradox#book of the war#doctor who#whoniverse#bbc doctor who#big finish#sixth doctor#scarlet pimpernel#sir percy blakeney#canonwelding#the service#plight of the pimpernel
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My 2023 Reads
See below for the full list of the books I read and a 1-2 sentence review of each.
Fiction, non-fiction, poetry
Italicized- reread
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr) - It's like a combination of All the Light We Cannot See, Cloud Atlas and The Book Thief, except not quite as good as any of those. Good, just not as good.
The Stolen Heir (Holly Black) - Highly recommend if YA fantasy romance is your thing
On the Incarnation (Athanasius of Alexander) - one of the foundational works of early Christian theology
Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro) - Beautiful, and lovely, and thoughtful and bittersweet
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo (Tolkien translation) - technically this is poetry but its also narrative so I grouped it with fiction. Green Knight is very fun. Pearl is quite boring.
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution (Louise Perry) - I highly recommend this, just be cautious because it has some very frank discussions of some very hard topics so there's a whole bunch of language and trigger warnings attached to this recommendation
Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme (Stephen Westerholm) - I'm going to be honest-- I don't remember what I thought of this book. It was for school and I also did a bunch of research on the topic and I don't remember what part of that research this constituted.
A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life (J.I. Packer) - I read a few chapters of this for a research project last year and liked it enough to buy myself a copy and read the whole thing for fun
The Warden and the Wolf King (Andrew Peterson) - Book 3 of this series (this is 4) remains my favorite but this one is really good and is a beautiful culmination of the themes
The Elements of Eloquence (Mark Forsyth) - About as good as a book that is just explaining various rhetorical figures can be.
The Theology of the Book of Revelation (Richard Bauckham) -THIS book right here I want to read again. This book made me fall in love with Revelation.
King of Scars (Leigh Bardugo) -It's the reason why I'm very upset over the cancellation of the Shadow and Bone tv series (because I won't get to see more of my boy Nikolai) but it's fine
The Secular Creed: Engaging Five Contemporary Claims (Rebecca McLaughlin) - A very useful book, very accessible
Rule of Wolves (Leigh Bardugo) - But seriously I love Nikolai and I mostly really enjoyed this duology.
The Waste Land and Other Early Poems (T.S. Eliot) - So many words saying so many things and maybe I'll know what they mean if I read this another 30 or 40 times.
Notes From Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky) - Very different from other Dostoevsky but fascinating in its own way
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Emmuska Orczy) - It's a romp
Calvinism: A Southern Baptist Dialogue - genuinely very very helpful to me and just randomly was emailed to me as a pdf by some site that I ended up on the email list for
The Great Hunt (Robert Jordan) - I do not have faith in this series being good over time but at book 2 they're fun
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) -It really is that good.
Original Sin: A Cultural History (Alan Jacobs) - a really interesting exploration of the idea
Out of the Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis) - The Space Trilogy is great because it just has such a different feel from most of the other sci fi I've read
Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been (Jackie Hill Perry) - Perry has such a lovely poetic way of telling her story
Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me (Karen Swallow Prior) - This book is really lovely and peaceful and reflective
A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K. Le Guin) -honestly was not very impressed by this. It was fine.
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) - If you're really into the Russian classics, I would recommend this, but there's like 6 others I would recommend first.
Firefly: Big Damn Hero (James Lovegrove, Nancy Holder) -If you want the book equivalent of a solid but not stand-out filler episode of Firefly
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (Ken Liu) -I ranked all of the short stories in this on my blog if you search for it. Some are great. Some are not.
All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr) - It's really really good. A book you just want to sit with.
The Chalice of the Gods (Rick Riordan) - Kinda the same vibe as the Firefly one. It's good to see Percy again, it's a fun time, it's not taking any big swings or doing anything particularly new. But I did really enjoy the thematic linking of which gods were chosen to be a part of the story.
Dracula (Bram Stoker) - It's Tumblr, I don't need to review this here.
Biblical Critical Theory: How The Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture (Christopher Watkin) - This book is really big but it has so much good stuff in it. Well worth the read.
An Experiment in Criticism (C.S. Lewis) - There was quite I while through this one where I was not really jiving with it, but then at the end he pulls it together and I really like where he ends up, as evidenced by quoting half of it on posts here.
Poems (C.S. Lewis) - I'm not good enough at reading poetry to review it. There's a few in here that I quite liked though.
For teaching-
1. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)- it's still great. After reading it who knows how many times, it's just so good.
2. The Crucible (Arthur Miller)- The character work in here is fantastic, and I really do like it a lot, but if Miller understood grace a bit better? the ending could be phenomenal.
3. Long Way Gone (Ishmael Beah)- It's not my favorite but it is really powerful and worth reading and the kids were really invested in it
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Came across this on YouTube - still not the cleanest version, but much better than the one I've seen before!
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Title: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (Pink Carnation #1)
Author: Lauren Willig
Genre/s: romance, historical, Regency romance, contemporary romance, adventure
Content/Trigger Warnings: historical period-accurate misogyny, parental death (offscreen, in the past), references to beheadings, violence
Summary (from publisher’s website): Nothing goes right for Eloise. The one day she wears her new suede boots, it rains cats and dogs. When the subway stops short, she’s always the one thrown into some stranger’s lap. Plus, she’s had more than her share of misfortune in the way of love. In fact, ever since she realized romantic heroes are a thing of the past, she’s decided it’s time for a fresh start.
Setting off for England, Eloise is determined to finish her dissertation on that dashing pair of spies, the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian. But what she discovers is something the finest historians have missed: the secret history of the Pink Carnation—the most elusive spy of all time. As she works to unmask this obscure spy, Eloise stumbles across answers to all kinds of questions. Like how did the Pink Carnation save England from Napoleon? What became of the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian? And will Eloise Kelly escape her bad luck and find a living, breathing hero all her own?
Buy Here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-secret-history-of-the-pink-carnation-lauren-willig/11087824
Spoiler-Free Review: So this is actually a reread of this book, which I first read all the way back in the early 2000s, when it was recommended to me by a friend who also suggested I read The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy - of which this book is supposed to be a sequel.
(Yes, I know Orczy wrote actual sequels for The Scarlet Pimpernel, but my friend also told me NOT to read those because they were going to extinguish whatever love I had for the first book. I haven’t been inclined to go looking, so I haven’t read them.)
Anyway, back to this book! I remember being thoroughly entertained by this when I first read it, and I’m glad to note that it holds up pretty well to my memory of it the first time around. It’s still as fun and occasionally funny as I remember it being, and I’m still utterly delighted by the story as a whole. Amy and Richard’s romance is fun, even if it’s not EXACTLY the type of story that I usually favor, and their hijinks are very much in line with what I remember reading in The Scarlet Pimpernel. In fact, there’s plenty of that DNA in this book, which, if you’re coming right off reading Orczy’s novel, will certainly make this an even more enjoyable read.
Rating: five pink carnations
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THE GATES OF KAMT by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (New York: Dodd,Mead, 1907). Illustratedby Mararet West Kinney and Troy Kinney
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'Sir Percy Leads the Band' by Emmuska Orczy
what I wanted: book 1 was really fun, so I figured that this one would be another fun classic
what I got: a bad edition (so many typos!) of a pretty average read
what I thougt: This was a nice enough sequel, though it lacks the tangible adventure spirit of the first one. I rate it 3 out of 5 band pieces.
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