Dec 24, 2025
Merry Christmas Algy, wherever you may be, rest ye.
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Merry Christmas Algy, wherever you may be, rest ye.
opening paragraph of “the body” by stephen king
𝓓𝓲𝓯𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓬𝓵𝓸𝓾𝓭𝓼, 𝓼𝓪𝓶𝓮 𝓼𝓴𝔂
The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)
05/07/2025
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away.
Friends come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant, did you ever notice that? But when I think of that dream, the corpses under the water pulling implacably at my legs, it seems right that it should be that way. Some people drown, that's all. It's not fair, but it happens. Some people drown.
The Body by Stephen King, from the Different Seasons collection
Funko will release The Shawshank Redemption Pop figures in November. Andy Dufresne and Ellis "Red" Boyd Redding are $12 each.
April 2024 Wrap Up
Not me posting my April wrap up over halfway through May...
Books Read: 13
Look at all these! I mean, to be fair, five are picture books. But still. My favorite was, of course, The Sunshine Court. I can't believe that the year of our lord 2024 gave us a new All for the Game book. It was amazing! My least favorite was The Biographer's Tale. A serious disappointment from the author of one of my favorite books. I was also unable to finish Apt Pupil, although I thought it was well-written. Almost too well-written. I was seriously disturbed. Books marked with ® are rereads.
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King - 4 stars
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness - 4 stars
In the night I dream of home by Vagelis Iliopoulos, illustrated by Hariton Bekiaris - 4 stars
The Sleeping Beauty retold and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman - 4 stars
The Idiot by Elif Batuman - 4 stars
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey - 4 stars
Molly by Joseph S. Bonsall, illustrated by Erin Marie Mauterer - 4 stars ®
Sea Tale by Gail E. Haley - 4 stars ®
An Ellis Island Christmas by Maxinne Rhea Leighton, illustrated by Dennis Nolan - 4 stars ®
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot - 5 stars ®
The Biographer's Tale by A. S. Byatt - 2 stars
The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic - 5 stars
The Ways of Life by Margaret Oliphant - 4.5 stars
Books DNFed: 1
Apt Pupil by Stephen King - due to violent animal death
On Tumblr:
There's not much here, but @thehobbitwithstickyuppyhair helped me find a childhood picture book that I've been trying to find for years, and I am so grateful!
March 2024 Wrap Up
Book Quotes: The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Book Quotes: Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Help me find this picture book? - Solved!
More Victorian Novels Connections
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And a good mix here, including a Fairy Tale Friday.
March Wrap Up | 8 reads, 1 DNF
Fairy Tale Friday | The Night Dance by Suzanne Weyn
Quarter Year Crisis Book Tag 2024
Currently Reading 4/15/24
The George Eliot Project | Middlemarch
1st Book Haul of 2024 | January to March
May TBR | Mental Health May & more!
What I Read for Picture This 2024