Category: Literary

It’s an overcast day here…which totally puts me in the mood for novels like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights because it just doesn’t get much better than misty moors and mysterious secrets when it’s cloudy outside. I remember laying with my feet hooked over the back of my grandmother’s couch one summer evening, feverishly reading Jane Eyre,… Continue reading Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights

“To Wesley and to Margaret the bright young face of Elnora, with its pink tints, its heavy dark brows, its bright blue-gray eyes, and its frame of curling reddish-brown hair was the sweetest sight on earth, and at that instant Elnora was radiant.” –A Girl of the Limberlost, Gene Stratton-Porter Nothing like a warm day… Continue reading Girl of the Limberlost

“Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.” –An Old-Fashioned Girl This is the book we read when we wanted more of Louisa May Alcott and had read Little Women,… Continue reading Old-Fashioned Girl

“However many years she lived, Mary always felt that she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow.” -Frances Hodgson Burnett It was in The Secret Garden that we learned that we can make beautiful spaces that are all our own. And the garden was the place where dreams came true,… Continue reading The Secret Garden

“I don’t want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.” -Anne Shirley Tattered and well-loved, tear-stained and dog-eared, this is where it all began. Best read with tissue close at hand, Anne of Green Gables changed our lives. Thank you Anne with an “E” for teaching us that adoption is love and that our… Continue reading Anne of Green Gables