Ryanne Molinari

November 9, 2014

NaNoWriMo Problem #1

Getting waaaaay too excited about my characters and having to remind myself that they are not real.

Scribblings

author, Book, bookworm, character, create, first draft, literature, National Novel Writing Month, writing
November 8, 2014

Occupational Hazards

My first National Novel Writing Month and I’m almost to the 8,000 word mark! So far I’ve only faced mild writer’s block, major inkstains, and a few hand cramps, but I supposed I can consider those occupational hazards. :)

Scribblings

Book, first draft, NaNoWriMo, novel, writer, writing
November 3, 2014

Whipped Cream, Etymology, and Passion

With college application essays and people constantly asking me what I plan to do with my life once I graduate, I have found myself using the word “passion” more and more frequently. I have a passion for music, literature is my passion, I want to get my degree in something I am passionate about. Heavens, just last…

Literature

AP Literature, author, books, bookworm, choir, christ, christian, english, etymology, literature, martyr, Music, passion, proper english, writing
October 24, 2014

Misquote

” It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it averaged out to be the most mediocre of times.” Wait… that’s not what Charles Dickens wrote? Oops. AP Statistics is not helping my literary skills.

Literature

book humor, charles dickens, literature, literature humor
October 16, 2014

Romeo is not Romance

I was perusing Pinterest this afternoon and came across this nifty picture. Seeing that it included classic books, I stopped my mindless scrolling, looked through it, and nearly shouted aloud. No. No. No!!! No. No. NO. N.O. No. What was so frustrating about this pin? Well, first of all is the fact that it lists…

Literature

Anna Karenina, AP Literature, authors, books, bookworm, classic lit, classic literature, gone with the wind, great gatsby, love, love story, nicholas sparks, pinterest, rant, reader, Reading, romance, romeo and juliet, shakespeare, tragedy, twilight
September 5, 2014

Grave con Brio: On Pianos in Literature

I feel a bit guilty admitting this, but I love writing essays. Really. My classmates- if any of them actually are reading this- are probably rolling their eyes and groaning, but call me a nerd, I don’t care and I’ll say it again: I love writing essays. I especially love writing them when they are…

Literature, Musings

analyzing, AP Lit, AP Literature, author, beethoven, books, booworm, chopin, composer, essay, fitzgerald, Jane Austen, lit, literature, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, motif, Music, musical passion, musician, nerd, performer, phantom of the opera, pianist, pianisti, piano, sense and sensibility, the great gatsby, writer
August 30, 2014

The Importance of Being Literate

We live in a world of hashtags and texting abbreviations; gleeful laughter has been replaced by “LOL”, “carpe diem” has been killed by “YOLO”, words are being replaced by numbers 4 heaven’s sake! (That was painful, but consider my point made.) It seems I cannot go through one day without being confronted by enough grammatical atrocities to…

Musings

american illiteracy, books, crime, Do Something, frederick douglass, grammar, history, illiteracy, literacy, literacy problem, literature, poverty, Reading, speeches, words, writing
August 12, 2014

Return to the Garden

What qualifies a book as a classic? This is the question my classmates and I were faced with in English today and I am probably way more emotionally invested in this subject than I should be, but my answer to this question has taken years to discover! And, after all, isn’t most literature…

A Bit of Light Reading, Literature, Musings

AP Literature, books, C.S. Lewis, Children’s Books, classic, classic literature, fairy tales, literature, Narnia, Secret Garden
August 3, 2014

Literary Madness: A Dangerous Disease Affecting Readers Everywhere

It’s over. It is finished. No, wait… one more annotation. Now. Now it is finished. But it isn’t! Arghhh!!! I know it is considered bad writing to use numerous exclamation marks, but I suffer from a fever that only excessive use of them can cure! (See, that sentence did not even need one, but my…

Literature, Musings

AP Literature, Book, book hangover, bookworm, exclamation points, fangirl, frankenstein, intellectual, literary, literary greatness, literature, madness, questions
July 31, 2014

Book Cravings

Have you ever just needed to reread a book? I mean, have you ever just felt so overwhelmed with the real world that you long to escape once more into “fairylands forlorn” with Lucy Pevensie or Bilbo Baggins? Or maybe you prefer dances and romance with Scarlett O’Hara or Elizabeth Bennett? Or perhaps even chilling…

Literature, Musings

adventure books, AP Literature, Book, books, classic books, classic literature, comfort books, favorite books, frankenstein, literature, love books, rereading, the mysterious benedict society
July 23, 2014

The Best Lemon Bars- with Young Living Essential Lemon Oil

In the middle of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, I began to despair of first, the human condition, and second, ever actually finishing the deceptively-short book. I clearly needed a break- and some food as I had been reading for hours- so I decided to try my hand at a new recipe for lemon bars.…

Recipes for Readers

baking, bon appetit, delicious, essential oil young living, heart of darkness, joseph conrad, lemon bar, lemon oil, literature reading recipe dessert, oil, Reading, refreshing summer recipe
June 9, 2014

Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A Call to Serve a Different Master

“Tom read,—”Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”“Them’s good words, enough,” said the woman; “who says ’em?”“The Lord,” said Tom.“I jest wish I know’d whar to find Him,” said the woman.” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin The woman in this excerpt from one of the…

Literature

abolition, America, American literature, Book, faith, freedom, Harriet Beecher Stowe, history, Jesus Christ, liberty, literature, Master, novel, salvation, Savior, slavery, Uncle Tom, Uncle Tom’s Cabin