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“To venture … close [to a lion] on foot … would mean the sudden shattering of any kindly belief that the similarity of the lion and the pussy cat goes much beyond their whiskers. But then, since men still live by the sword, it’s a little optimistic to expect the lion to withdraw his claws, handicapped as he is by his inability to read our better effusions about the immorality of bloodshed.” Beryl Markham: West With the Night

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. Louisa May Alcott: Work

About

An Alphabet of My Likes and Dislikes
About Me: The Less Random Stuff
Reading
My Grandfather’s Voice
- Ride to Spyker
- The Path to Freedom
My Home City: Bonn
Friendly Felines: Past and Present

Recent Posts

Adventures in Arda
Michael J. Sullivan: Riyria
Michael J. Sullivan: Legends of the First Empire
German Women Writers: Children’s and Young Adult Literature
German Women Writers: Mystery and Suspense
German Women Writers: Post-WWII / Contemporary
German Women Writers: 1900 – 1945
German Women Writers: Historical Fiction
German Women Writers: The 19th Century
German Women Writers: The Age of Enlightenment
German Women Writers: The Reformation Age
German Women Writers: The Middle Ages
German Women Writers: A Series of Blog Posts
Michael J. Sullivan: Riyria Short Stories – The Jester & Professional Integrity
Happy Easter!

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Blog Posts by Categories

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Literature
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Ongoing Projects

100 Days of Summer Reading 2023
Around the World in 80 Books – Mostly by Female Authors
- Women Writers: Reading List
Freedom and Future Library
The (Mostly) Dead Writers Society Reading Projects: Birthday Challenge & Authors in Residence
Measure for Measure
By a Lady
Adventures in Arda
- Middle-earth
Narrativium: Where the Falling Angel Meets the Rising Ape
Mysteries and Crime Fiction
- The Detection Club
- The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
Book Series
The Big Books and Series Binge Challenge
The BookLikes Crowdsourced Reading Lists
On Page and Screen
Beyond the 100th Meridian
The Gourmet Corner
The Cat’s Whiskers

Completed Projects

An Alphabet of My Likes and Dislikes
Women Writers Bingo
Diversity Bingo
The Flat Book Society
Detection Club Bingo
Summer Reading
Halloween Bingo
Festive Tasks Game
Christmas Books
- 2021 Holiday Reads
- Christmas Reading 2020
BookLikes-opoly
- BL-opoly 2020: The Pandemic Edition
- BL-opoly 2019
Snakes & Ladders
- Snakes & Ladders 2020
- Snakes & Ladders 2019
Kill Your Darlings
- My KYD Reads … or: Harry Potter, and What Else I read in March 2018

Book Reviews / Blog Posts by Author

Marjorie Eccles
Wolfgang Ecke
Umberto Eco
Esi Edugyan
Martin Edwards
George Eliot
T.S. Eliot
Joy Ellis
Kate Ellis
James Ellroy
Shamael Elnoor
Cary Elwes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Michael Ende
Shūsaku Endō
Katrine Engberg
Anne Enright
Nora Ephron
Louise Erdrich
Zaina Erhaim
Ramabai Espinet
Laura Esquivel
Jennifer Estep
Euripides
Robert Eustace
Bernardine Evaristo
Chris Ewan
Rian Marie Extavour

Witi Ihimaera
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Michael Innes
Henry Irving
John Irving
Washington Irving
Christopher Isherwood
Kazuo Ishiguro

Shirley Jackson
Derek Jacobi
Jane Jacobs
John Jakes
E.L. James
Henry James
P.D. James
J.A. Jance
Keith Jardim
Michael Jecks
Edgar Jepson
F. Tennyson Jesse
Marie-Elena John
Samuel Johnson
Jennifer Johnston
Reginald Fleming Johnston
Jonas Jonasson
Martin Jones
Ben Jonson
Marty Jopson
James Joyce
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Sebastian Junger

Vladimir Nabokov
Barbara Nadel
Sten Nadolny
Elma Napier
Shizuko Natsuki
Barbara Neely
Jo Nesbø
Peter Neufeld
Celeste Ng
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Viet Thanh Nguyen
John Nichols
Andrew Nicoll
Ranka Nikolić
Anaïs Nin
John Julius Norwich
Mary Novik
Naomi Novik
Elizabeth Nunez

Joyce Carol Oates
Barack Obama
Michelle Obama
Edna O’Brien
Patrick O’Brien
Flannery O’Connor
Joseph O’Connor
Donal O’Kelly
Sofi Oksanen
Mary Oliver
Michael Ondaatje
Charlie O’Neill
Owen O’Neill
Emmuska Orczy
Kate O’Riordan
Anna Maria Ortese
George Orwell
John Osborne
Ovid
Delia Owens

Ellery Queen
Amanda Quick

Albert Uderzo
Michael Underwood
Sigrid Undset
Barry Unsworth
Sandra Uwiringiyimana

Catherynne M. Valente
S.S. Van Dine
Mario Vargas Llosa
Sarah Vaughan
Vergil
Katherena Vermette
Jules Verne
Roy Vickers
Barbara Vine
Joan D. Vinge
Pen Vogler

Xinran

Rick Yancey
Tiphanie Yanique
Natacha Yazbeck

Jan Zalasiewicz
Israel Zangwill
Juli Zeh
Émile Zola
Boris Zubry
Stefan Zweig

Movie Reviews

The Age of Inncoence
All the President's Men

The Big Sleep
Boyz N the Hood
Braveheart
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Cadfael (ITV)
Casablanca
Chinatown
A Christmas Carol
The Client
The Color of Money

Dead Man Walking
Dead Poets Society

Elizabeth
The English Patient
Evelyn

Felidae
A Few Good Men
The French Lieutenant's Woman

Gandhi
Good Morning Vietnam
Gosford Park
The Grapes of Wrath

Hamlet
Havana
Heat
Howards End

Impromptu
Interview With the Vampire

Jeremiah Johnson

Knight Moves

L.A. Confidential
Local Hero
Longitude
Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane Features (BBC)

The Maltese Falcon
Michael Collins
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midsomer Murders
Miss Marple (BBC)
Much Ado About Nothing

Oscar Wilde Collection
Out of Africa
Outbreak

Partners in Crime (ITV)
Philadelphia
Poirot (ITV)
Primal Fear

Quills
Quiz Show

Rain Man
The Red Violin
Richard III
A River Runs Through It
Rob Roy
Ronin

Sense and Sensibility
Se7en
Shadowlands
The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (BBC)
Sherlock Holmes (ITV)
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Spy Game
The Sting
A Streetcar Named Desire

The Tailor of Panama
Thelma & Louise
This Property Is Condemned
Three Days of the Condor

The Untouchables
The Usual Suspects

Witness for the Prosecution

Nonfiction Videos

Rock Music & Chanson Reviews / Blog Posts

Blues Rock

Classic Rock
Eurovision Song Contest
Ice Cube

Chansons
- Georges Moustaki

Classic Music Reviews / Blog Posts

Ludwig van Beethoven
Frédéric Chopin
George Gershwin

Opera

Ballet
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  - The Nutcracker

Tango
- Astor Piazzolla
  - María de Buenos Aires

Musicals

Incidental Music

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” ― Mark Twain

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.” ― Judy Garland

Recently Added to My Library

Some Random Favorite Reads

Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large)'s bookshelf: favorites

Trutor & The Balloonist

Trutor & The Balloonist

by Debbie Lee Wesselmann

tagged: favorites

Plantagenet Princess, Tudor Queen: The Story of Elizabeth of York

Plantagenet Princess, Tudor Queen: The Story of Elizabeth of York

by Samantha Wilcoxson

tagged: favorites

Faithful Traitor: The Story of Margaret Pole

Faithful Traitor: The Story of Margaret Pole

by Samantha Wilcoxson

tagged: favorites

Conceit

by Mary Novik

tagged: favorites

Of Marriageable Age

Of Marriageable Age

by Sharon Maas

tagged: favorites

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