The Problem with Publishing... A personal rant about several things I find immensely irritating in the current publishing world. Read More Writing, ReadingEirene RitznoreMarch 30, 2024Publishing, Writing, Lauren Willig, Kate Quinn, World War 1, World War 2, Erotica, Sherry Thomas, Deanna Raybourn, Tasha Alexander, Ashley Weaver, E.L. James, Kelly Oliver, Conor Bender
With Delicate Fingers and Eyes Lifestyle, ReadingEirene RitznoreFebruary 27, 2021Fredrick Nietzsche, Jeff Minick, The Epoch Times, Slow, Slowing Down, Read Well, Read
Quarantine Writing Writing, ReadingEirene RitznoreNovember 6, 2020Quarantine, COVID 19, Coronavirus, Writing, Dean Koontz, The Library Passage, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, The Pink Carnation Series, A Hundred Summers, Her Last Flight
A Poison Garden? Giveaway, Reading, BooksEirene RitznoreMarch 29, 2019Poison Garden, Medici, Deanna Raybourn, A Dangerous Collaboration, The Veronica Speedwell Series, Veronica Speedwell, Butterflied, Butterfly, Glasswing Butterfly, Cornwall, England, Alnwick Castle, Romilly, Jane Percy, Duke of Northumberland, Belva Plain, Beauty, Danger, Herbalism, Orto Botanico di Padova, Padua, Catherine de Medici, Chateau de Blois, Chamber of Secrets, Michael Faber, Mertensia Romilly, Giveaway, Book
Scot, Wha Hae Wi' Burns Read Reading, LifestyleEirene RitznoreJanuary 25, 2019Robert Burns, Burns Night, Abraham Lincoln, Scotland, Poetry, Poet
Lines to Love: The Summer Wives Books, ReadingEirene RitznoreAugust 10, 2018The Summer Wives, Beatriz Williams, Winthrop Island, Ocean, Sea, New England, 1960s, 1950s, 1930s, Fiction, Love, Books, Lines to love, Quotes, Lines to Love, Team W
On Camera: Alexey Brodovitch and Vermeer Movies, Reading, LifestyleEirene RitznoreApril 20, 2018Alexey Brodovitch, Harper's Bazaar, Carmel Snow, Diana Vreeland, Richard Avedon, Man Ray, Irving Penn, Photography, Vermeer, Johannes Ver, Johannes Vermeer, Modernism, Cubism, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Guis, Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Gris, Hattie Carnegie, Flanders, 1940s, America, Movies
Words to Love: Words Wherever You Listen... Reading, WordsEirene RitznoreMarch 16, 2018Words, Words to Love, Leviathanism, Laviathan, Cetology, Moby Dick, Allusion, Whales, Mephistophelean, Faust, Mephistopheles, Oleaginous, Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room, Legerdemain, Star Trek, Leonard Nimoy, Spock, Panach, Clint Eastwood, Rene Russo, John Malkovich, In the Line of Fire, Secret Service, The Philadelphia Story, George Cuko, Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart, Dinah Lord, Tracy Samantha Lord, Innuendo, Herman Melville, Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind, Louisa May Alcott, Oscar Hammerstein II, Katharine Hepburn
Lines to Love: The Romance of Poetry Reading, Books, Lines to LoveEirene RitznoreFebruary 12, 2018Poetry, Love, Poems, John Keats, Fanny Brawn, Valentine's Day, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Passion, Desire, Sonnets, Deanna Raybourn, Spontini, La Vestale, Opera, Gong, Elizabeth Barrett Browing, Robert Browning, Sonnets of the Portuguese, Sappho, Greek, Pablo Neruda, Chile, 100 Love Sonnets, Romance, Lines to Love
New Year's Reading Resolution Books, ReadingEirene RitznoreJanuary 1, 2018Reading, New Year's, Resolution, New Year's Resolution, Lauren Willig, Deanna Raybourn, Pimpernel, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Pink Carnation Series, Sherilyn Pratt, A Treacherous Curse, The Summer Wives, Beatriz Williams, A Certain Age, Cocoa Beach, Brooklyn, The Wicked City, C.S. Lewis, The Space Trilogy, Chronicles of Narnia, Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength, Beatrice and Benedick, Marina Fiorato, Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Arcadia Falls, Carol Goodman, Simone St. James, The Broken Girls, Karen White, The Forgotten Room, Three W's, WWW, TBR, 2018
Lines to Love: The Jane Austen Edition Reading, Books, Lines to LoveEirene RitznoreDecember 18, 2017Jane Austen, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Mrs. Croft, Hope, Friendship, Wit, Humor, Irony, Pithy, Poignant, Romance, Love, Library, Books, Reading, Social Commentary, Lines to Love, Truth, Wisdom, Quotes
Lines to Love: First Lines Edition Reading, Lines to LoveEirene RitznoreAugust 28, 2017Deanna Raybourn, Dean Koontz, Rosamund Hodge, Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus, Cruel Beauty, Lines to Love, Tasha Alexander, And Only to Deceive, Anne of Green Gables, Rachel Lynde, L.M. Montgomery, False Memory, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith, The Deception of the Emerald Ring, Lauren Willig, Ashley Bell, City of Ashe, Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes, Karen White, The House on Tradd Street, Patricia Veryan, Journey of Enchantment, Pride and Prejudice, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Citys, First Lines, To Love
Words to Love: Words, Words, Words... Reading, WordsEirene RitznoreAugust 25, 2017words, Words to Love, Words, My Fair Lady, Lerner and Loewe, Dean Koontz, Veronica Roth, Bon Jovi, Long Words, Martin Freeman, The Hobbit, Sherlock, Sesquipedality, Jejune, Piffle, Erudite, banana, bellybutton, cappucino, The Masque of the Black Tulip, One Door Away From Heaven, Augustus Whittlesby, Spy, Leilani Klonk, Divergent, Colloquial, To Love, Etymology
Books to Love: A Spear of Summer Grass Books, Giveaway, Reading, Books To LoveEirene RitznoreJuly 31, 2017Africa, A Spear of Summer Grass, Deanna Raybourn, Dean Koontz, Giveaway, Book Giveaway, Delilah Drummond, J. Ryder White, Tusker, Jazz, 1920s, paris, Kenya, Nairobi, Kikuyu, Masai, Scandal, Cole Porter, You're the Top, It's De-Lovely, De-Lovely, Why Can't You Behave?, Bearcat, Ella Fitzgerald, Jane Monheit, .416 Rigby, Pirate, Dorothy Parker, Cat's Meow, Murder Mysteries, Summer
Cockney Rhyming Slang Reading, Writing, WordsEirene RitznoreJuly 28, 2017A Jack-surpass of finger and thumb, bull and cow, don't have a cow, weasel and stoat, stoat, ermine, The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, alligator, see you later alligator, Cockney, Rhyming, Rhyming Slang, Cockney Rhyming Slang, Adam and Eve, Rabbit and Pork, Uncle Bert, Ball and Chain, trouble and strife, wife, later, coat, rum, Scarpa Flow, Scapa Flow, England, Great Britain
You Are Getting Sleepy... ReadingEirene RitznoreJuly 17, 2017Mesmer, Mermerism, Mesmerized, Mesmeric Pass, James Braid, Franz Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, Hypnotism, Hypnotherapy, Metaphor, 18th Century, 1700s, Medicine, Sir Isaac Newton, Theory of Gravitation, Animal Magnatism, Animal Magnetism, Benjamin Franklin, Louis the XVI, France, Scotland, Great Britain, Charlatan, Science, Scientist, Etymology, Writing, Research, Rabbit Hole, England, Words
Why I love subtitles: tact vs. tack Reading, WordsEirene RitznoreJune 8, 2017Etymology, Idioms, Diction, Subtitles, Movies, Tack, Tact, Ships, Nautical, Words
Keen as Mustard? Reading, WordsEirene RitznoreJune 4, 2017Mustard, Keen as Mustard, Daniel Ricciardo, Formula One, England, Keen's Mustard, Colman's, Snickers, Roast Beef, Oh, Oh the Roast Beef of Old England, Pub Songs, Idioms, Etymology, History, Phrases, William Walker, OED, Oxford English, Words, Food, Fun
Lines to Love: The Scourge of Frenchies Everywhere Reading, Writing, Books, Lines to LoveEirene RitznoreMay 7, 2017Lauren Willig, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sink Me!, Frenchies, Pink Carnation, Lines to Love, Baroness Orczy, Secret History of the Pink Carnation, The Masque of the Black Tulip, The Seduction of the Crimson Rose, The Deception of the Emerald Ring, The Temptation of the Night Jasmine, The Betrayal of the Blood Lily, The Garden Intrigue, The Orchid Affair, The Passion of the Purple Plumeria, The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, The Lure of the Moonflower, Superman, Alter Ego, Kryptonian, Made of Steel, Man of Steel, Great Britain, England, Small Beginnings, France
Lines to Love Reading, Lines to LoveEirene RitznoreMay 1, 2017Literature, Reading, Sentences, Metaphor, Simile, Dean Koontz, Deanna Raybourn, Erin Morgenstern, Beatriz Williams, Karen White, A Curious Beginning, The Duke of Olympia Meets His Match, Tiny Little Thing, False Memory, The Night Circus, The Lady of the Eternal City, The Lure of the Moonflower, The Wrath and the Dawn, The Adventuress, The City, On Folly Beach, The Night Attila Died, Winnie-the-Pooh, Lines to Love