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The Junior High Book Report Has A New Name And Address!
July 25, 2007 – 7:12 am
The Last Sentence
June 5, 2007 – 8:13 am
I have often thought that the best first sentence in a novel is in The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied [...]
The Feminine Mistake
June 3, 2007 – 10:02 am
I first learned about The Feminine Mistake by Leslie Bennetts when I read a review of it in the Washington Post here. Suitably intrigued, I picked it up and read.
The Feminine Mistake darts around like a minnow and continually circles back to a couple of core points. It is a little Momento-ish since each chapter [...]
“Antique, Illogical And Democratically Indefensible”
May 18, 2007 – 8:04 am
Recently, the Queen of England came and went (Carter had some interesting comments here in a post titled “Send the Queen Home”).
Isn’t it totally absurd that any modern country has a heredity ruler (figurehead, whatever)?
Jeremy Paxon (author of On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families) was on the Daily Show with [...]
Wonder Woman!
April 26, 2007 – 4:12 pm
A new Wonder Woman, written by Jodi Picoult, is coming out. I really enjoy graphic novels and think that they (hands down) make the best movies (300, Sin City, A History of Violence, V for Vendetta etc).
I am certainly excited to read what Picoult produces despite the fact that I have never read any of [...]
Quote Of The Day – 4/26/07
April 26, 2007 – 8:19 am
It has been almost twenty years since I bought a magnet with this quote on it (attributed to Mark Twain). I think it is useful advice.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the [...]
