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Grace Leigh

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; a

About Me

Take a peek at my blog, and you'll find out all you need to know!

My Interests

Reading, writing, tennis, running, yoga, art, piano, museums, travel, cooking, fashion, film, dance, music, politics, philosophy, religion, gracefulness, chivalry, modesty, and anything that inspires, uplifts, or encourages us all to do better.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone looking for thoughtful conversation.

Music:

Beethoven, Pachelbel, Debussy, George Gershwin, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Coleman Hawkins, Etta James, Glenn Miller, The Beatles, The Temptations, The Four Seasons, Smokey Robinson, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Bob Marley, U2, Elton John, The Beach Boys, Coldplay, Fleetwood Mac, Radiohead, Wilco, Gomez, O.A.R., Ray LaMontagne, Snow Patrol, Counting Crows, Jack Johnson, Feist, Spoon, Brad Mehldau

Movies:

The Sound of Music, Pride & Prejudice, It's a Wonderful Life, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Rear Window, High Society, To Catch a Thief, Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, An American in Paris, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, My Fair Lady, North by Northwest, Dial M for Murder, Sense & Sensibility, Sleeping Beauty, West Side Story, The Wizard of Oz

Television:

The Wonder Years, The Brady Bunch, I Dream of Jeannie, Gilligan's Island, Lost, Project Runway, Planet Earth, The Dog Whisperer, the classic movie channel

Books:

Pride & Prejudice, Anna Karenina, Anne of Green Gables, A Wrinkle in Time, Mere Christianity, Love Is Justice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Sense & Sensibility, The Alchemist, Life of Pi, The Stolen Child, Where the Red Fern Grows, Emma, Little Women, The Secret Garden, From Dawn to Decadence, Democracy in America, the Chronicles of Narnia, the works of Shakespeare, the poetry of Frost, Keats, Shelley, Neruda

Heroes:

Jane Austen, Grace Kelly, Leo Tolstoy, William Shakespeare, C.S. Lewis, my parents

My Blog

Dawn Breaks: A Review of the Final Book in the Twilight Saga

NOTE: CONTAINS SPOILERS   The August 2nd release of Breaking Dawn marked the end of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight sagaand what an ending it was, lighting up the message boards on the series' s...
Posted by Grace Leigh on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:54:00 PST

A Promise

Busy with various freelance and work-related projects of late, I haven't had as much time for my blog as I'd like. I have, however, had time to dig up a romantic little poem that I wrote a while ...
Posted by Grace Leigh on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:18:00 PST

The Austen Appeal

Though the works of Jane Austen have been a staple of the literary canon for over a century, Austen's popularity continues to grow even today, nearly two hundred years after her death. The 2005 film a...
Posted by Grace Leigh on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:51:00 PST

A Compromising Position

After love and trust, compromise is often heralded as the sine qua non of relationships. In popular television shows and women's magazines, advice columns and romantic comedies, compromise is the magi...
Posted by Grace Leigh on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:33:00 PST

Proud to Be Prude: A Review of Carol Platt Liebaus "Prude"

If you were to ask nearly any young woman whether or not she is a prude, her response would most likely be No way! In recent decades, the term "prude" has taken on a negative connotation, indicating t...
Posted by Grace Leigh on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:29:00 PST

Mild vs. Wild: A Review of Wendy Shalit’s "Girls Gone Mild"

When I was in elementary school, I was playing with My Little Pony dolls, wearing matching sweatsuit outfits that my mom picked out for me at Kids 'R' Us, and admiring Punky Brewster and Anne of Green...
Posted by Grace Leigh on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:45:00 PST

The Perfect Contradiction

Nobody's perfect. This tagline has become the mantra of our age, the siren song of a culture that encourages us to do what we want when we want without regard to right or wrong. The impossibility of p...
Posted by Grace Leigh on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:24:00 PST

Grace on Grace

If you ask any woman to name the feminine traits toward which she strives, there is a good chance that grace will be one of them. Looking into our past, it is easy to see why, as some of our most icon...
Posted by Grace Leigh on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:26:00 PST

Vampires and...Abstinence?

Stephenie Meyer has taken the book world by storm. The first two novels in her Twilight series  2005's Twilight and last year's New Moon  have over 1.6 million copies in print. Her highly anticipat...
Posted by Grace Leigh on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:58:00 PST

TV Lacks "Values" Debate

Last night, I popped some popcorn, curled up on my couch, and tuned in to watch a program that I had been looking forward to all day. No, it wasn't the season premiere of Prison Break. Nor was it the ...
Posted by Grace Leigh on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:39:00 PST