Archive for March, 2007
Tam Lin
I’m a little torn about this book. I wasn’t completely happy with it, but, in a way, it redeemed itself in the end. First, the warning: the novel contains somewhat objectionable content, but considering the setting, this content is appropriate. The novel is set in the 1970s on a college campus. While author Pamela Dean [...]
March 20, 2007
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The Departed
I think I’m still a little confused about this movie. I simply can’t figure out what it is trying to be or achieve. The entire film is rather predictable until the very end, where nothing seems to make sense anymore. The film sets itself up as a cops and criminals drama, where both sides have [...]
March 15, 2007
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My Turn for Humor
It’s not often that I find gems in the local paper, but it does happen occasionally. This, from the West County Times on Wednesday, March 7, 2007: Britney’s rehab, Anna Nicole’s funeral….exscuuuuse us, but can we please talk about the Energy Policy Act of 2005? That’s the wretched law that’s launching Daylight Savings three weeks [...]
March 8, 2007
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God and His Laws
Just as I proclaim my favorite quotes are humorous, along comes something which is not. In the midst of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Mystery of Marie RogГЄt,” from Tales of Mystery and Imagination, comes the following reflection. “It will be understood that I speak of coincidence and no more. What I have said above upon [...]
March 8, 2007
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Choices
She cried, “No choice! No Choice!” She doesn’t know. If she doesn’t speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn’t try, she can lose her chance forever.
March 6, 2007
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A Different Type of Quote
I, like Ithilwyn, love quotes. However, my favorites are often the humorous ones. It’s not that I read nothing but funny books; quite the contrary. Humor, though, can push a book over the edge from merely good to being a favorite. To begin with, what follows is a quote from a book by Edgar Rice [...]
March 5, 2007
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