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I couldn’t pass the quote up…
“The secret to teaching was to place yourself where you could see them but they couldn’t see you. And nothing was more deadly than the reverse. Chalkboards were for chumps.” from The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler I just laughed myself silly over the first half dozen pages of chapter three. If [...]
July 19, 2007
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When Worlds Collide
I’ve finally drummed up another quote, since I haven’t finished another book yet, and thus cannot offer another review. This one comes from A Passage to India which I am currently reading with my senior classes. The setting is a town in India during that country’s colonial period. Forster goes to great lengths to establish [...]
May 3, 2007
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Lightening the Mood a Bit
Bumper stickers usually annoy me. Either I completely disagree with their message (usually the political ones), find them absolutely pointless (“Honk if you like X”), or can’t read the teensy little print and am left wondering if they aren’t really a hazard to other drivers. Then, occasionally, I see one that I find really, really [...]
April 19, 2007
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A Quick Update
Yes, I have been reading, but life has gotten in the way of posting. Now, third quarter grades have been turned in, my sister-in-law’s wedding is this weekend, spring break is next week, and I’ll finally have a bit of time to catch up. In the meantime, here’s a quick update. I finished I am [...]
April 4, 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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Hiatus
Sorry for my absence. I’ve had a rather busy two weeks, but I won’t get into that. The important thing is that I have been reading and will have new reviews soon, but in the meantime, here is a quote. “The rudeness that hath appeared in me have I learned from my entertainment.” Viola to [...]
February 28, 2007
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