All sorts of things are wrong in my life, but all sorts of things are right too.

I can share an example of the latter. As I sit with a glass of White Horse, I am trying to decide which of these two books to read next:

Washington Irving -- Tales of the Alhambra

Franz Werfel -- The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

I'm lucky to be faced with such a choice.

#Books #TalesOfTheAlhambra #WashingtonIrving #AmericanLiterature #FranzWerfel #TheFortyDaysOfMusaDagh #GermanLiterature

Confesores imperdonables

https://noticiaslainsuperable.com.ar/2026/03/24/confesores-imperdonables/

In the original short story by Washington Irving and the Walt Disney movie, the legend of the Headless Horseman says that he carries his own severed head. That Ichabod Crane gets hit by a pumpkin instead is a big clue that he's being attacked by a disguised Brom Bones instead of by the real Horseman.
🎨 John Quidor

#PhantomFriday #GothicSpring #NationalReadingMonth #Book #Fiction #Literature #WashingtonIrving #Disney #Ghost #Monster

#LeavesOfGrass by #WaltWhitman

The pulsing soul of American poetry. Whitman celebrates the individual, the body, and the democratic spirit of a young nation. 🌿📜✨

Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2018/12/leaves-of-grass-by-walt-whitman.html

#TheLegendOfSleepyHollow by #WashingtonIrving

Watch out for the Headless Horseman! The spooky tale of Ichabod Crane and the supernatural mysteries of the Hudson Valley. 🎃🏇🌫️

Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow-by.html

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ A Christmas Carol ✧

A Christmas Carol is an 1843 novella by Charles Dickens, illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man....

#ChristmasCarol #WashingtonIrving #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol

I had no idea that Washington Irving, the author of ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ and other tales, was an Episcopalian.

“On this day, then, we might think of those years when Irving set in his pew in Christ Church, Tarrytown … Morning Prayer being said according to the 1789 revision of the Prayer Book, with Gloria in Excelsis, echoing the angelic chorus, proclaiming the grace and peace of the Christian faith.”

#WashingtonIrving #Episcopalian #EpiscopalChurch

http://laudablepractice.blogspot.com/2025/11/thanksgiving-for-washington-irving.html