About

Me (Risa)
I am a stay-at-home mom, trying not to let my grey cells decay from lack of use. As I have always loved literature, I continue to read and expand my literary horizons whenever I can find the time, desire or the inclination in the midst of being a wife, mother and home-maker. Being a teacher at heart and a former one by vocation, I hope to some day impart what I learn from all my reading of the classics. And even should I not have the opportunity to do so, I am nevertheless the richer for this reading journey.

What I read
Currently, I read the classics – ancient, elizabethan, romantic, victorian, edwardian, modern, mid-late 20th century and everything else in between. I also read literary fiction and Christian non-fiction.

Some favourites (in no particular order)

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Persuasion and Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webber
• Anne of Green Gables series by L M Montgomery
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
• Shadow of the Moon by M M Kaye
  The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
  The Song of Albion by Stephen R Lawhead

My goals as a book blogger 

• I’m mainly here to share my love of reading with people of like-minded bookish tastes. Therefore, my posts about the books I read are, for the most part, geared towards instigating discussions. If a book is fairly new I try to keep my posts free of spoilers. But my posts on old classics are bound to be full of those.
• I read for pleasure and for no other purpose. I started out with noble aims of finishing this lot of books and that lot. But recently I have come to realise that life is too short and my hours of reading too few for me to be struggling through books that do not hold my interest, be they great acknowledged classics/bestsellers or no.

The paintings in my header

“Girl Reading” by George Cochran Lambdin

“Reading the Letter” by Thomas Benjamin Kennington

“Study in a Wood” by Daniel Huntington

“Reading in the Garden” (1915) by Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky

Page updated on August 18, 2012.