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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Posted in book review, literature, modern fiction, reading on February 4, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Because Sarah P. asked me to, here goes a book review. I apologize for format and such since I’ve never done a professional book review. Here are my thoughts on the book (warning: spoilers):
In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, two central characters, “The man” and “The boy,” are followed as they attempt to survive in [...]

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Book Give-Away

Posted in literature, modern fiction, reading, tagged , , , , , on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Bookfinds is giving away signed copies of a new book titled Sisters of Misery. Read the blog entry…sounds like my kind of book! I also mentioned this on my other blog in case you don’t read that one.
In other book news, 5 Minutes For Books is starting a Classics Bookclub online. August’s book is Pride and Prejudice. [...]

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DailyLit

Posted in literature, reading, tagged , , , on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I found this cool site called DailyLit that will deliver books into your inbox. I found it from another blog I read Playing on the Point. We are all so used to reading emails that by the time we go home for the day, we’re spent. So, this is a cool way to receive excerpts [...]

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Oil!

Posted in literature, movies, tagged , , , , , on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The husband and I watched There Will Be Blood Monday night. Although a very dark movie, it was somewhat enjoyable to me (I’m a huge fan of Daniel Day-Lewis). Based on Upton Sinclair’s novel, Oil!, I have read reviews stating the book is better than the movie. The movie starts a little slow and is [...]

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Jane Eyre

Posted in literature, tagged , , , , on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I just found out that a friend of mine from church is reading Jane Eyre, one of my favorite books in the whole realm of books. I guess it excites me because she’s a MATH teacher! One of our other friends is a high school English teacher and recommended it to her–she also suggested that [...]

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Me, a Novelist?

Posted in literature, writing on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A scholar is saying that technical writers are the future of American literature. Feel free to check out the link below:
Writer’s Write Blog

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Newspeak

Posted in dystopia, literature, science fiction on August 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’m in the middle of Orwell’s 1984 and I haven’t gotten very far, but I have gotten to the descriptions of Newspeak and the dictionaries that they are creating for the new-fangled vocabulary. If you’ve never read 1984, “Newspeak” is the society’s attempt to combine words in order to make them shorter. Sort of a [...]

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Nothing to Post

Posted in literature, writing on August 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I haven’t had much time to read this week so I don’t have much to blog about. Hopefully next week won’t be quite as crazy. Work has been extremely busy, so my brain is mush.

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What I’m Reading

Posted in literature on August 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »

As some of you know, I like to read several books at the same time. I guess that’s part of my multi-tasking talent that takes over sometimes. So here’s the breakdown:
1984 – George Orwell
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Secret of More – Mark Buchanan
Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis (I’ve been on this one awhile and [...]

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Literary List

Posted in lists, literature on August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This took me FOREVER and made me realize that I need to read more…
1. If you could host a party with 7 literary characters, who would they be and why?Emma Woodhouse (Emma), Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird), Guy Montag (Fahrenheit 451), Winston Smith (1984), Dorian Gray, Gregor Samsa (The Metamorphosis), Josephine March (Little Women). [...]

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