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This is a blog for my writing and also any random musings that I may happen to spurt out. Please note that all writings are by me, unless otherwise stated and do not take them for your own. Thank you! Maureen
About Me
- MaureenE
- I am an Eastern Orthodox Christian girl, living in the Northwest United States and a college student. I studied in London, England, spring semester of my junior year, which was an amazing experience! I tend to talk about books here but you never really know what is going to pop up!
Current quote
What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task.
Robin McKinley, Sunshine, p. 383
Robin McKinley, Sunshine, p. 383
Books currently checked out
- A Bone from a Dry Sea
- A Handbook of Costume
- A Short History of Costume and Armour
- Dealing with Dragons
- Graceling
- Lord of the Fading Lands
- Ombria in Shadow
- Patterns of Fashion 1
- Patterns of Fashion 2
- Patterns of Fashion: Elizabethan
- Ring for Jeeves
- Solstice Wood
- Something Rich and Strange
- The Eddy Fence: poems
- The Knife of Never Letting Go
- The Last valois, 1515-90
- The Lion in the Gateway
- The Mad Farmer Poems
- Unexpected Magic
- Western European Costume and its Relation to the Theatre
NaNoWriMo 08
Favorite Authors Week
Blogs and links
- 350
- A Dusty Frame
- Adventures in Mercy
- Amy's Humble Musings
- Anna Maria Horner
- Austen Blog
- Between the Stacks
- Bigger than a Breadbox
- Body, Soul, and Spirit
- Bookshelves of Doom
- Charis Connection
- Dancing with Dragons, and Other Hobbies I Enjoy
- Deb on the Run
- Eastern Orthodox Librarian
- Flowershop Girl
- Heart and Home
- Here in the Bonny Glen
- IDD
- Imperfect Cogitare
- In the Shadow of His Wings
- Inkygirl
- Katie
- Krakovianka
- Krista
- Lanier's Books
- Life: The Journey
- Melissa Wiley
- Miss Elizabeth
- My graphics site
- Neil Gaiman
- Orthodox Mother's Digest
- Our Blue Castle
- Pleasant View Schoolhouse
- Robin McKinley's blog
- Simple, Green, Frugal
- So Much More...?
- Squeetus
- Study in Brown
- The Common Room
- The Great Adventure
- The IDD Blog
- The Reader's Corner
- This is Life!
- YLCF
6 comments:
Will you remain in London, or travel a bit? I liked the Lake District (tho' it'll be a bit cold this time of year), and if you can, you must see Tintern Abbey. I can't describe it - it's heavenly. And if you like gardens, Sissinghurst (in Kent, just an hour or two east of London) is fabulous. Better than Kew, which is wonderful.
Enjoy!!
Deb, yes it's really exciting!
Pam, I don't leave until January, so we'll see how the weather is then. :D I do plan to travel, although I'll be based in London. I'd really love to make it to Wales, also Hampshire (Austen country). The Lake District would be another place to visit, but we'll see if I can make it that far away in the time I have. Thanks for the suggestions! I'll keep them in mind.
I've not seen Hampshire. Sissinghurst is the garden belonging to Vita Sackville-West, who was a famous gardener (wrote a column in the paper about it), in addition to being a novelist and a friend of Virgiia Woolf. (I was on quite a Virginia Woolf kick, some 20 years ago. Read all her novels, many bios, and essays, so it had extra meaning.) The garden truly is beautiful - her husband was very mathematical and structured; he laid out the plans very rigidly, and she planted with wild abandon. The combination of the two attitutes is amazing.
That does sound quite amazing! I'll have to look them up.
I followed a comment you made at Bookshelves of Doom, and not to sound weird, but you sound an awful lot like my college self (um, all of 6 years ago). Orthodox, check. Books, check. Spending a semester in London, check. I'm sure you'll have a wonderful trip - it's a GREAT place to live, and so many things to see close by. Go to Cornwall if you can, and Scotland, and - okay, I'll shut up now :)
Hi Jess! No, that doesn't sound weird. :) I've got a couple of non-Orthodox twins--i.e., we think very much alike and read a lot of the same books. I'd love to go to Cornwall. I believe the program I'm going with will include an extended weekend trip to Scotland. Thanks for the tips! I'm making a list of places to go while I'm there. Hopefully it doesn't get too long.
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