9:02 am
August 2, 2010
Hi! I'm Alyssa, and Boleynfan over at the Elizabeth Files too. I am completely and utterly obsessed with the Tudors and the Tudor-Elizabethan period. My favorite Tudors are Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I–my friends have banned them from conversation because they know once I get started, there's no turning back…My favorite fiction books are Jane Austens, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jane Eyre, and of course anything Tudor-related. My favorite non-fiction book? The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives. That book is the most brilliant one ever made 🙂 Well, I'm really happy to join this forum!!
xx Alyssa
P.S. Over in the Book Club section, I wrote a post. I'm taking over the running of the Book Club, and anyone who has ideas on what the next book should be, comment there please!
"Grumble all you like, this is how it's going to be"
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9:27 am
February 24, 2010
OK. Somehow my post didn't get on. I'll try again.
I don't know if guys would like Jane Eyre, but To Kill a Mockingbird is an essential read. It is a beautiful story of our American south in the not-so-distant past. It is a story about growing up in a small southern town, and it is a story about lies and prejudice. Really…It's a must read.
10:10 am
August 2, 2010
Sharon, I love Wuthering Heights too!! It's on my list of favorite books. Who's your favorite character? Despite his evil, I really like Heathcliff. I like both Cathys too, even though Cathy the mother is really selfish. It makes me cry too 🙂
I agree with you in about To Kill a Mockingbird as well. I always re-read it.
Thanks, everyone, for saying hi!!!
"Grumble all you like, this is how it's going to be"
11:19 am
February 24, 2010
4:55 pm
May 20, 2010
I love Wuthering Heights! Has anyone been to Hawarth in Yorkshire? It was the home of the Brontes and you can just imagine Cathy and Heathcliff on the moors around there.
I also love Jane Eyre and To Kill a Mockingbird, as well as Middlemarch by George Eliot.
Debunking the myths about Anne Boleyn
10:54 am
February 24, 2010
Edgar that's it. Thanks ladies.
For years I despised Edgar as much as Heathcliff did. I guess my opinion has mellowed a little. I think Edgar knew his entire married life was based on lies. He always knew that as comfortable as Catherine became in the marriage, she did not love him the way he knew she had loved Heathcliff. In the end, it wasn't Edgar's arms she died in. It was in Heathcliff's arms. (this is where i start crying and don't stop for about an hour or so. Sobbing like a baby.) Edgar had to step back and watch as his beloved wife died quite peaceably in the very arms of the man he had thought was gone forever. I think he got what he deserved; but I also think he is a forlorn figure. I guess I can't say I liked him. I rather pity him.
However, I am Sicilian and and can be a touch vengeful. If Heathcliff had thrown him out the window, I probably would have been good with that, too.