Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories | 
The sexton was a meek, acquiescing little man, of a bowing, lowly habit...I found him...settling the affairs of the church over a friendly pot of ale - for the lower classes of English seldom deliberate on any weighty matter without the assistance of a cool tankard to clear their understandings.
(from the sketch "The Boar's Head Tavern, Eastcheap")
so-soThough slow paced, I did enjoy some of these stories and essays, there are a wide range of adventures though most are based in England and seem to obsess over the 'old world'. Many are written so passionately and I've got to say that Irving can potray admiration well through his poetic writing style. My favourites in this book were; The Wife, Rip Van Winkle , Rural Funerals, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow was so good but more romance.
Movie night!
Sleepy Hollow is leaving Netflix Nov 1, so I have to watch it again before it goes away 😫.
#Screamathon
pickNew video up! In this episode, I review "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow!"
https://youtu.be/-hrYBrpDy6w
so-soJust finished The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (just the short story), for the first time in years. Not bad, although I thought it would be a little spookier. I wish I‘d finished it yesterday, but I‘m glad to be done now.
Just enough time before Halloween to read the 5 issues of Sleepy Hollow in #serialreader! More silly than scary, the fun story so perfectly encapsulates the feeling of autumn for me I read it every year around this time.
1. Treats!!
2. I‘m not that creative! Haven‘t dressed up for Halloween in a long time! 🎃👻
3. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
4. The top pic is stamps I bought today. They‘re from 2015 - the postman pretty much hoards them. 😂
#hellothursday
@wanderinglynn
“On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck, on perceiving that he was headless!—but his horror was still more increased, on observing that the head, which should have rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the pommel of the saddle.”
We all know the story.
Now it‘s time to read it!
#AllHallowsRead
“When the spooks have a midnight jamboree
They break it up with fiendish glee
The ghosts are bad but the one that‘s cursed
Is the headless horseman; he‘s the worst
That‘s right, he‘s a fright on Halloween night! When he goes a joggin‘ ‘cross the land
Holding his noggin in his hand
Demons take one look and groan
And they hit the road to parts unknown
Beware, take care he rides alone!”
From The Headless Horseman.
#litsyclassics #halloween
pickAnother short story from my childhood. Not as I remembered, but still a good story.
We drove to Sleepy Hollow just to see a sign.
#legendofsleepyhollow
One of my favorites...”you can‘t reason with a headless man”
Maybe I should read this today...it's been decades. #riotgrams #getspooky
pickIrving's writings, layered and surprisingly entertaining for being over a century old, are classic by every sense, standing the test of time, and it's easy to see why Ichabod Crane's ghostly encounter is one of America's greatest tales.
I love the many variations of Sleepy Hollow and The Headless Horseman. A few of my favs are the t.v. show and the Tim Burton version but my absolute favorite is the animated version, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad or The Legend of Sleepy Hollow! It's such a classic. I remember watching it all the time as a child and being so hypnotized as Ichabod rides his horse through the dark bridge and listens to the frogs croak "Ichabod", sooo good!
What's scarier than an angry headless man throwing pumpkins at people? And of course I had to include the story that Ichabod the cat got his name from 😺
#pumpkins #hallowreads #blackcatsoflitsy
@JoeStalksBeck @Tiffy_Reads
“He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat on top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle next to tell which way the wind blew.”
I think because I love Burton's Sleepy Hollow so much, I was a bit letdown by the original Legend of Sleepy Hollow. I really enjoyed the other stories though!
Anyone else gearing up for some spooky reads this season? #halloween #sleepyhallow #headlesshorseman #disneyland
#fallintobooks #shadesofautumn
Today was my neighborhood's Fall Into Art festival. People were still busy painting when I came in to make dinner at 6pm. It was not at all autumnal today- 85 degrees and humid. I hope it gets cooler soon. I'm looking forward to wearing sweaters and boots again.
This doesn't exactly fit the prompt, but I'm a bit of a #wannabe runner. But I don't actually run...partially because I have crappy knees and partially because I'm lazy. I have, however, been trying to motivate myself to get off my butt and move more by taking part in some literary-themed virtual races via Yes.fit! My latest conquest was 25.3 miles (not all at once) for the Sleepy Hollow Redux. Pretty proud of myself. 😊 #90sInJuly
so-soAll I could think when I read this was "Wait, is this the inspiration for the 'Bracebridge Dinner' episode of Gilmore Girls??" If not, I am still dumb. If yes, Mind. Blown.
I loved these audiobooks! So well done and entertaining. I highly recommend them both! #bestofnovember #day30 #photoadaynov16
#photoadaynov16 no.18 #headlesscovers Only one I could find.
I recently read this book and thought of it immediately for the #headlesscovers prompt. All these pictures are courtesy of Google. #photoadaynov16 #day18
pickI was planning on reading the paper version of this book for Halloween but fell behind on my reading goals. Then I found this audio version on Overdrive and I'm so glad I did! This is a play adapted from the original story and performed on radio theatre. The narrative followed the original very closely and I enjoyed it immensely. If you happen to come across this audio version of the story, do yourself a favour and listen to it. 5/5⭐️
My yearly Halloween read 🎃
#scaretober #allhallowsread #giveascarybook
"Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie."
Gotta say I love my library.....I purchased this gem for 2.00$! What a steal! #octoberreads #booklover #washingtonirving #sleepyhollow
pick🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 Five pumpkins of a story! I was pleasantly surprised at how close the Disney version captured Ichabod's idiosyncrasies. Perfect launch into October! #bookish #october #reading #ichabod #washingtonirving #literarybrew #fall #autumn #pumpkin #scaretober #booktober #headlesshorseman #michiganbeer #michigander #craftbrew
From yesterday - October's most anticipated read I think... Though I'm looking forward to a few! #booktober #octoberphotochallenge
@RealLifeReading
Even though it's National Coffee Day (believe me, I embibed earlier today), fall is in the air. The weather has finally cooled and I'm curled up with a great book and my bedtime chocolate. Happy Fall Y'all!
I could't wait! I'm starting #HalloweenHorror a few days early with a new Serial Reader story. #scaretober #classichorror #ghostsoflitsy
Day 24 - great quotes- On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck on perceiving that he was headless!–but his horror was still more increased on observing that the head, which should have rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the pommel of his saddle! #septphotochallenge #somethingforsept #greatquotes
When I was a child, nothing freaked me out more than the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow. Of course, over the years, I came to see the story as it was meant to be: a charming folktale. And many years later while researching my family history, I discovered some of my ancestors are among the dead in Sleepy Hollow's Old Dutch Church cemetery. Another ancestor haunts a manor further north, I hear. Sometimes family can be the scariest of all.
