Topic Brainstorm

Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales

As I mentioned in my introduction post, my favorite novel of all time is The Picture of Dorian Gray, written by Oscar Wilde. Just from reading this novel, it is obvious that Wilde has an amazing ability write clearly and eloquently while still maintaining creativity and imagination. Because of this, to me it is an obvious choice to consider The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde as a project topic. Oscar Wilde has two fairy tale books and I am more interested in The Happy Prince and Other Tales because The Happy Prince is about a sparrow that travels to Egypt and meets a statue of a prince and I have always had the dream of going to Egypt and I am very interested in the culture and history. Below is a picture of a collector's edition version of The Picture of Dorian Gray from my personal book collection.

(My Personal Copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray, personal photo)

Ancient Egyptian Myths

After speaking about my interest in Egyptian history and culture, it should be clear why I have an interest in Ancient Egyptian Myths and Stories. In my Reading Options blog I talked about how I have a life goal of seeing the Great Pyramids in Egypt, and I think that experience would only be enhanced by having a knowledge on the Egyptian Myths that the pyramids and other great structures were built upon. On Freebookapalooza there are many resources on Egyptian Myths and I am confident I could find many stories that are interesting to me. Specifically, I would be interested in telling stories about Goddesses because I love the idea of empowered women. 

Arabian Nights

For years, every Christmas or birthday I have asked for books as a present. Because of this I have been able to acquire a beautiful collection of books, including Arabian Nights. Although I have not been able to read all of the stories in the book I have read and enjoyed a few of the more popular ones like Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp. Since I already have a physical copy of Arabian Nights, I think that it would be a great topic for a project. If I were to retell a story I would possibly do Aladdin since I already have knowledge on it and I think having the power to retell such a well known story could prove to be exciting. 

(My person copy of Tales from Arabian Nights, personal photo)

Alice In Wonderland

If you haven't been able to tell already, I like the idea of using a book as my basis for a project since I enjoy reading so much. Although I do not own a personal copy of Alice in Wonderland, there are many resources such as the Project Gutenberg which has many free books to download. (This is also a great resource for my other project topics) Although I do have previous knowledge on the Alice in Wonderland story, there is so much more to learn and being able to tell the stories from a different perspective would be very interesting.