The best thing I read today was “The Lady of Shalott” with my eighth grade literature class. One of my favorite stanzas: She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She look’d down to Camelot. Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror crack’d from side to side; “The curse is come upon me,” cried The Lady of Shalott.
My favorite romantic movie combines great literature with great cinema: it’s Kenneth Branagh’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. My wife and I love watching this movie together, but the first time we watched it on DVD we got a bit of a surprise we weren’t counting on. We had watched it several times on a videotape I had recorded from PBS, so when it came out on DVD I was looking forward to watching it in its original widescreen format so we could see every bit...
Does your special someone love to read? This gift will put a little spark into your relationship on Valentine’s Day, and it’ll only cost you a little time and some printer paper: customized classic literature. Find a piece of romantic literature that’s in the public domain using Project Gutenberg. Let’s use Pride and Prejudice as our example. Download the text to your computer and prepare it for eReading using these instructions. Now for the fun part: using the Find and Replace feature of your word processor, replace the...
Aubrey/Maturin Read-along 2021-2024
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