Tag Archives: JRR Tolkien

#WitchWeek2020 Day 3: The Graveyard Book

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Lizzie Ross

“It takes a graveyard to raise a child.” (back cover of The Graveyard Book, US edition) Appropriately for today, the Day of the Dead, we present you with a discussion of this year’s read-along book, a novel set in a cemetery. Four of us–Lory* … Continue reading →

Posted in Gothic, Witch Week | Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Edith Nesbitt, Horace Walpole, Jane Austen, Joan Aiken, JRR Tolkien, Mary Shelley, Matthew Lewis, Mrs. Gaskell, Neil Gaiman, Rudyard Kipling, Tennessee Williams | 14 Comments

Seven Bookish Virtues/Sins Tag

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Lizzie Ross

Looks like all my blogging friends are playing this game of tag, and it’s my turn to be IT. Ola G at Re-enchantment of the World, Lory at Emerald City Book Review, Chris at Calmgrove, and I-can’t-remember-who-else (sorry, blogger buddies, … Continue reading →

Posted in Am reading, Favorite books, Lists, reading | Tagged Arthur Ransome, Eduardo Galeano, EF Benson, Eric Kraft, George Eliot, George Saunders, Hendrik Van Loon, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, JRR Tolkien, Marcel Proust, Mary Norton, Mikhail Bulgakov, Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman, Roland Huntford | 4 Comments

Monsters all

Posted on September 16, 2019 by Lizzie Ross

This is my first of two posts for RIPXIV (Readers Imbibing Peril, 14th year), a community read of frightening books. And let me start with this: I’m not a horror-genre type of reader (or viewer — I repeatedly turn away … Continue reading →

Posted in Graphic Novel, Horror | Tagged Beowulf, David Rubín, John Gardner, JRR Tolkien, Santiago García | 6 Comments

The course has ended but the reading continues

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Lizzie Ross

Originally posted on Readers Are Leaders 2014:
So keep posting to this site. I want to hear about the new books you discover, and I bet others do as well. Tell us what your students are reading. Post Top-10 lists. Top…

Posted in Fantasy, Series, Top-10 Lists | Tagged Cornelia Funke, Diana Wynne Jones, Edward Eager, Garth Nix, JRR Tolkien, Mary Norton, Michael Scott, Philip Pullman, Pseudonymous Bosch, Ursula K Le Guin | 2 Comments

HP for adults

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Lizzie Ross

The Magicians (2009) and The Magician King (2011), Lev Grossman (402 and 400 pp. respectively) Hands up, anyone, if you ever wished you could live in the world created by your favorite writer/s. Top on my list is Anne Shirley’s PEI of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Fantasy | Tagged CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Lev Grossman, Ursula K Le Guin | 2 Comments

Desert Island Books

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Lizzie Ross

A 2010 post from my other blog. I’ve made only one change in the list, which I’ll discuss at the end. I’m sure I’m not the only one to imagine myself being interviewed for shows like Desert Island Disks and Mad About Music. … Continue reading →