no mourners, no funerals

I almost forgot about this blog for a little while. Hello to the faithful few who still read it 🙂 I'm on spring break for a brief couple more days, and then it's back to the crazy busy wonderful thing that is college daily life. I'm honestly quite stressed and worried about the remainder of…

the smashing & dashing character awards, 2022

Hello and welcome again to the woods! Ahem. Well, welcome to my blog, anyway. As you may have noticed, the name at the top of the page changed, but the url didn't, because some unknown fellow Chesterton fan possesses the url "gailyinthedark.wordpress.com" already. (If you don't know what gaily in the dark means, go read…

2022 in media

some of this comes from a tag, courtesy of Emily : ) how many books? So far I have read 92! (I am doing this tag a bit preemptively because I just finished my final assignment of the semester and am very excited to do non-school writing. I hope to read 100 this year.) (Also,…

recently: reviews

As You Like It: Hilarious but I'm not sure what the point is; everyone did end up married to the right person, though, so I guess we've got something positive going on. I still wouldn't recommend pretending to be a guy and getting your crush to flirt with you while you're pretending. (Or writing poetry…

an aesthetic autumnal atmosphere

I've been doing some wandering around my college town lately. It looks, and smells, like fall. The air is crisp, the sky is bright, and as I walk along the neighborhood streets listening to The Hobbit or singing hymns with friends, I take courage. The world is so full of a number of things /…

the mid-year book freak-out tag :)

Well met, travelers, and welcome to the woods, where your [aspirationally] gracious hostess is nearly always absent and there is no uniformity of theme or style to her posts. How have you all been? Last time, I posted a long ramble about death and academia. Today I'm here to tell you about the books I've…

the bookworm tag

Hello friends! I'm back (momentarily) with the happy update that both essays I referenced in my last post went well (presumably -- neither have been graded yet), I am officially a classics major now, and I have been tagged by Sarah to do this tag! Hurrah (: • What author has your favorite prose to…

more disorganized than Radagast (with Queen’s Thief aesthetics!)

(Because, y'know, Radagast actually isn't in The Hobbit, and also I'm pretty sure he was more organized than whatever the heck the movies made him out to be. And this post actually does have a modicum of organization.) I just finished Return of the Thief, which means that I've officially finished my first reread of…

2020 favorites || books

listed by genre. all of these books are four or five stars because they're my favorites! books marked with a ♥ are some of my very favorites.books marked with a ➼ were recommended to me by a friend or website.books marked with a ✟ are by a Christian AND include directly or allegorically Christian content.…