Tag: books
member name: Becky Powell
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May 13, 2008 04:17 PM EDT --
"Now what I want is, facts," said Tilda. "None of this storybook crap for me." She dropped her cigarette, and crushed it with her shoe
"Stories . . .
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February 17, 2008 06:40 PM EST --
When can a writer's writing be used against him in a court of law? This is the question David Grann examines in his fascinating article "True Crime, A postmodern murder mystery," . . .
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April 29, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
No one should have to dance backward all of their lives. ~Jill Ruckelshaus
Feminist criticism focuses on assumptions about gender in literature and how these assumptions . . .
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May 22, 2008 08:27 AM EDT --
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin, Vintage Books,1998.
Haruki Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is a fat, ambitious book that . . .
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April 29, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician . . .
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January 22, 2008 12:42 PM EST --
Recently I discovered that there is an entire universe of literature out there for young adults. I am way past my prime for teen-ager books but because I homeschool my son, been able . . .
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April 10, 2008 09:11 PM EDT --
Looking back at the pivotal moments in our lives, it's hard not to wonder what might have happened if we'd taken a different fork in the road. In her new book, The End of an Error . . .
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March 31, 2008 05:19 PM EDT --
Last night I said farewell to old friends. I left them where they were and walked down the dirt road that led through town. I passed through the heavy gates that protected the . . .
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February 25, 2008 10:48 AM EST --
One goal I set for my son in reading this year was to try kinds of reading he had not tried before. He reads almost exclusively graphic novels. When I first heard the term "graphic novel," . . .
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February 13, 2008 03:22 PM EST --
That song Muscrat Love blared from somewhere in the house when I arrived.
"You must be Jill," I said. The girl turned her back to me as soon as she'd flung the door open. . . .
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February 11, 2008 08:59 AM EST --
James' posting "Murder Chess in Spain" made me think about novels with settings so vivid, they essentially become another character. How many hours do school kids and writing . . .
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February 04, 2008 09:28 AM EST --
I'm assuming it happens to everyone. I hope it does. I hope I'm not the only one that sometimes feels a fraud. I'm talking about those little mistakes, those little lapses . . .
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March 18, 2008 09:11 AM EDT --
Study Notes #1
"Literature is no one's private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves."
--Virginia . . .
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March 24, 2008 08:59 PM EDT --
Putting it in Context
Imagine your editor asks you to write a literary critique of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. What factors would shape how you analyze the book? . . .
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January 27, 2008 10:03 PM EST --
I'm in a quandry. I am currently reading a book that I'm not enjoying. I thought I would like it. I've tried to like it. I've shamed myself for not "getting . . .
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January 25, 2008 09:22 AM EST --
Welcome to you folks who have joined this group! Let's get some book talk going. Tell us what you are reading now and why you are reading it. (i.e., for school, to learn something, the . . .
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April 07, 2008 03:44 PM EDT --
Long ago in a faraway desert, a man of whom we know nothing decided that the words he had scratched onto clay were not conventional accounting signs numbering legal decrees or heads of cattle, . . .
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