All about the Brontes challenge: Wuthering Heights

I finished the PBS version of Wuthering Heights tonight and really enjoyed it. One reason that I enjoyed the presentation was because I could finally understand the storyline, whereas when I was reading the book by Emily Bronte, I couldn't really follow the storyline. Another reason that I enjoyed it was because I got an idea of what the area of the moors was like. While I don't know how accurate the miniseries was to the book, I can gather that it was pretty close.

Overall, it was a pretty good adaptation of the book.

1 - True Light ; Terri Blackstock

True Light ; Terri Blackstock

Blackstock's third novel in the Restoration series is slow-moving in the first half, but the pace picks up considerably in the second. The Branning family and their neighbors are now eight months into a worldwide blackout, trying to make ends meet and survive one crisis after another as violence rips their community apart. With the sheriff and his deputies desperately overworked and earning only a tiny fraction of their former pay, they can no longer keep their overcrowded, disease-ridden county jail under control. That means that it's up to Deni Branning to help clear the name of boy-next-door love interest Mark Green when he's wrongly accused of attempted murder.

My thoughts: As the second last book in this particular series, I found it a little slow moving at times, but still interesting. There were points in the book in which the book was a little too predictable, but at the same time there were some great messages, particularly the ones about forgiveness and humility. I only read it for the fact that I had already read the first two books in the series and that it seemed to be interesting. It was interesting to see the character's true colours shine through a difficult time and hopefully the final book will be more than worth it. Rating 3/5 stars.

Am thinking of something and need some feedback

For the past few days I have been thinking about hosting a sports book reading challenge. I don't know how many people would actually be interested in it, but I just want to know if its at least viable. I would probably start it sometime closer to the summer months.

Tuesday Teasers

Miz B and Teaser Tuesdays asks you to:
Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page.


Share with us two (2) sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given! Feel free to Grab the logo and post your own Tuesday Teaser.

New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
Doubleday; First American Edition edition (November 10, 2009)

(p.338)....If Abigail had silently grieved for Grey Albion for many months, the pain gradually began to subside. She had to reflect that many had lost fathers and husbands.

18th and 19th Century Woman Writers Challenge

After finding a link through another reading blog, I stumbled across this site and have decided to add to my increasing list of reading challenges for the year.

The two books I plan to read for this challenge are:
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Royal Mistress Challenge

Miss Moppet is hosting The Royal Mistress Challenge, in which one has to read books, fiction and non-fiction, based on royal mistress that actually have existed. There are a number of examples of various mistresses from a number of eras and countries. You can find the link to the challenge to post here.

As for me, I plan to read these books:
• A rose for the crown
• The Other Boleyn Girl
• The Last Boleyn

2010 reading resolutions

Just adding one more thing to my reading resolutions:

• To read the Bible for 5 or 10 minutes daily. I am a Christian and will admit that I don't read my Bible often enough, but in conjuction with my other reading resoultions, I do plan on doing this. I don't intend on reading the entire Bible in a year, but if I could read for 5-10 minutes, I think I will easily cover most of the Bible during the course of the year.