Like so many girls, I decided to read Sense and Sensibility after reading (and loving) Pride and Prejudice. Unfortunately, the first time I read it, Sense and Sensibility felt like a bucket of cold water. Sense and sensibility's sad tones and tricky situations took me by surprise. And don't get me started on the male characters. Willoughby, Edward and Col. Brandon are complex and troubled -...
Assault on Gimry by Franz Roubaud, 1904. (source) Did you know I almost studied History in college? Here’s why I didn't: The other day I was on Wikipedia researching about the Crimean War. The minute the page opened my eyes were drawn to the painting that was illustrating the article. After half an hour, I knew a lot about that painting and nothing about...
Maybe it’s a little soon to say this, but Babette’s Feast is the best movie I’ve seen this year. I don’t want to over sell it, but there’s a reason most people never heard of this movie. It’s a Danish film with little action and a powerful message that goes directly against everything modern man believes and pursues. And yet… the photography is...
Top 10 Tuesday is a book meme hosted by the creative girls from The Broke and the Bookish. Yesterday's theme was Top 10 Bookish Memories. At first, I thought I wasn't going to be able to pull this one off because I never met a famous author, or waited in line to buy a book. (Apparently a great number of bloggers waited in line...
I went to an art exhibit the other day and when I arrived at the end of it, a girl next to me turned to her group with a puzzled expression and said: “Is this it?” Granted, it wasn’t that great of an exhibit, but this feeling of bafflement is quite common. ll never forget when a friend of mine told me the thing...
Hey everybody, I hope you had a blessed Christmas and that you haven’t broken all your New Year’s Resolutions yet. (I myself am only slightly delayed on my To Be Read list). scene from After the Thin Man This is going to be a killer year, I can feel it. I’m working on exciting new features for The Culture Enthusiast and I’ll tell...
