Potter Book Quest on Facebook

Potter Book Quest is a book group with a reading list based off on John Granger's Harry Potter's Bookshelf... basically, it's a literary excursion through the books that influenced the sensational Harry Potter series! Many of these books are literary giants and some many may not have ever heard of.

I knew it! | Pride and Prejudice

How come I never thought about this before? Last night I decided to sort of shape the analysis of Pride and Prejudice, so I watched the movie starred by Keira Knightley which my aunt's friend Peter had recommended for so long. It was great for I could actually see the thoughts I had in my mind and of course I managed to organise them better. Today when I went down for lunch I turned on the TV and Bridget Jones' Diary was on Warner Channel. Of course I knew that Mark Darcy was Mr. Darcy, but I had never realized that Bridget was Lizzy, that Bridget's friends were Jane and Charlotte, that Bridget's mum was JUST LIKE Lizzy's mum, that both dads were equally sweet (though I believe Mr. Bennet to be much brighter and sensible), and of course! I realized that Daniel Clever was no other than Mr. Whickham. There's no sister running away, that's for sure, but Clever's constantly cheating on Bridget might well be parallel to Whickham's running away with Lydia. All these thoughts were running through my mind and I needed to confirm that I was right. And that's how thanks to google I found this great quiz http://www.funtrivia.com/flashquiz/index.cfm?qid=171219 I got 7 out of 10!

Jane Eyre Reading Journal | Post N°2

Unfortunately I must write that as Jane grew up my interest in the story declined :( The abundant instances of Romanticism are fading away and the visual images are becoming gloomier, leaving space for the Gothic to appear, with its supernatural features and its creepy tone. However, the story is keeping me on the edge of my....bed - i read a lot in bed lately - and the only thought of - so far - Grace Poole's laugh freaks me out. Well...perhaps the story is not that scary, but it frightens me all the same.