Tag: read
member name: Becky Powell
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April 14, 2008 05:22 PM EDT --
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor...It is the mark of a genius.
--Aristotle
A ny parent can attest to the effort necessary to explain to . . .
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March 31, 2008 07:57 PM EDT --
Naomi slid out of bed so she could shower first, before Jack could make the bathroom steamy and damp. Getting out of the shower, she realized she'd forgotten her robe. She carefully . . .
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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 08, 2008 01:20 PM EDT --
She put her last eight cigarettes beside a clean ashtray. After the last eight, she'd quit. It was too little, too late, but still. First cigarette to calm her nerves. . . .
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March 26, 2008 09:27 AM EDT --
An unimpeachable source, refusing to be named in order to remain anonymous, divulged today that John McCain would absolutely die for controversial mega-star prophet Tom Cruise as his running . . .
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February 21, 2008 10:44 AM EST --
This morning, John McCain's wife stood next to him at the podium while he answered questions about reports of a relationship with and special treatment of a female Washington lobbyist. . . .
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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 08, 2008 11:24 AM EDT --
I was in my car when I heard Meg Wolitzer on NPR discussing her new novel, The Ten Year Nap. For a weird second, it seemed like I was talking on the radio, but that was impossible . . .
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February 27, 2008 10:02 AM EST --
You were a stranger three doors down
A skeleton with yellow onion skin
A used-up smoker's heart.
Twice each day you walked past my house.
First downhill, with eyes cast down . . .
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March 15, 2008 12:35 PM EDT --
Don't look, I told myself. I didn't want to see what the anchor woman liked to do after three martinis. But it wasn't as easy as turning away, this new . . .
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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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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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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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March 17, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
I'm changing things up a bit at Book Talk. I realized that my attempts to get reading discussions rolling over the last few weeks have been pretty lame. I've gotten some nice . . .
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