Literally Literary

Longbourn by Jo Baker Published by:  Vintage (October 8, 2013) Genre: Romance, literary. retelling. historical Length: 354 pages My Rating: ★★★★★   A sign that you're reading a good book is when you stay up way to late to finish because you won't rest easy until you do. Then, even more so, when you wake next morning too early thinking about it. Longbourn was that book for me; it caught my eye now again on the internet. ABeautiful Mess did it as part of their book club and it came across my Goodreads account a couple of times. I absolutely adore Pride and Prejudice, but every time I considered picking up a spin-off novel the bad reviews have shied me away from the idea and I choose instead to watch the 2005 movie instead. (Never when my husband's home, though. I always end up crying at weird parts like at the Bingley ball when Darcy starts following Elizabeth. Turn around! Be in love already! ) In any event, I heard such great things about Longbo

Supergods by Grant Morrison Published by  Spiegel & Grau; Reprint edition (June 26, 2012 ) Genre: Non-fiction, comics Pages:480 My Rating:  ★★★☆☆ Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, and the X-Men the list of names as familiar as our own. They are on our movie and television screens, in our videogames and in our dreams.  But what are they trying to tell us?  For Grant Morrison, one of the most acclaimed writers in the world of comics, these heroes are powerful archetypes who reflect and predict the course of human existence: Through them we tell the story of ourselves. In this exhilarating work of a lifetime, Morrison draws on art, archetypes, and his own astonishing journeys through this shadow universe to provide the first true history of our great modern myth: the superhero.   To start things off here at Literally Literary  it would be befitting to post a book review. This is actually a revamp of a review I did last March. However, this book still h

I'm no good at introducing myself. If we were to meet I would say “hello,” tell you my name and that I was a massage therapist, maybe. Then, I would ask about you. Talking about myself or writing about myself is weird to me. Whenever I was asked to give summaries to companies I worked for to put on their websites I would struggle, feeling the push of stress building in my chest. I'm not sure why; I've been pondering it for awhile. It's not like I'm not proud of who I am, or aware of who I am, Every time I wrote about myself though, it just seemed fake and mostly silly. My first blog- a Tumblr I started in 2010 read something like this- Hi! I'm Lillie! I love my cat, and reading, and nerdy things! If you were to meet me it would quickly become apparent that there were no exclamation points in my voice probably ever. In my next blog, created early 2012 went thus: Avid Reader Comic Lover Massage Therapist Wonderfully Married Concis