Tag: literary criticism

• The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran, The Wreath by Sigrid Undset, and Flowers of a Dream by May Ziadeh

  

  (I didn’t post the other novel because I had borrowed it from the library; sorry Kahlil :).) And the poetry book I translated myself online with a French dictionary online and English one. 🙂 I discuss 2 books I’d read that the host Miss May Ziadeh had read, maybe both of them but definitely one…

  03/28/2023 9:20 am

  20th century, arabic, book reflection, book review, comparative literature, english education, english literature, essays, feminine theory, home library, Kahlil gibran, lebanon, literary criticism, literary salon we keep, literary theory, may ziadeh, norway, poetic, prose poetry, romantic era, sigrid undset, translations

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, A Fun Review and Reflection

  

  that pen does not say Jane, but Jade 💕😊a treasured gift my husband Dan had given me I finished Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (pub. 1817) at the salon today! What a memorable moment with my history of reading it a decade or more ago and not continuing at the time, finding a free…

  01/31/2023 5:42 pm

  19th century, beauty, book review, classics, england, english education, english literature, fun, gifts, home library, jane austen, literary criticism, literary salon we keep, literary theory, love, lovingkindness, massachusetts, my photography, novels, satire, secrets

• “This Is…”

  July 5, 2022 This Is… Humidity. This is the red flower moon full of… This is an anonymous lady shouting out (while grilling me) “Don’t be sorry, honey!” [to a man with her] of me, after there was no altercation, but only kindly manners, as he’d come quickly around a hidden bend, jogging toward my…

  07/05/2022 4:25 pm

  art, boston, creativity, fairies, fruit, full moon, gratitude, inspiring, library, light verse, literary criticism, literary salon we keep, memoir, memoir stories, moon, philosophy, plays, poetry, poets, prose poetry, william shakespeare