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Blogging From A to Z Challenge – Letter L

Letting Go of Your Characters  As a writer what is your reason for getting rid of a character and how do you make them exit from the story?     Studying for a degree in English Literature requires enormous amounts of reading. Quite a number of these books have been a pleasure to read, but many of them contain female protagonist who meet a premature death. Most of these books are 19 th century literature and the female’s death is the result of not following the feminine rules that men and society imposed upon women. A woman’s place was in the home taking care of the family, husband and entertaining guests. Women were not allowed in the men’s sphere and there were not many options available for education.   In the 19 th century, it was unheard of for women to be a feminist; this was long before Jane Fonda. 

Blogging Challenge A to Z – Letter “D” at Dogs Rule Cats Drool

It’s All About the Dogs  Today in the blogging challenge we are at the letter “D”   and of course, this being a dog blog, it is all about the dogs. Dogs come in all different sizes and shapes and their personalities are all different as you can see in the little joke below. The responses however, I warn you are laugh out loud funny and super cute. Enjoy the letter “D” 

Blogging from A to Z Challenge – Letter B

This being a writing blog, of course, I’m going to talk about books. I love reading books and have these books The Banyan Tree and Beowulf on my bookshelf.  I read Beowulf for the second time last semester in an English class. I also wrote a paper on the difference between the Warrior Society and the Christian Society; and even got an “A” on the paper, how cool is that?  I really enjoyed the story of Beowulf, it has lots of Christian themes in the book and lots of action. The second book, The Banyan Tree is on TBR pile and I hope to read it soon, since it’s been taking up residence on the shelf for a very long time.  Beowulf is the Old English/Anglo-Sacon heroic poem. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the help of Hroogar, the King of the Danes, whose mead hall (Heorot) has been under attack by being known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel’s mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland in Swede...