Surprisingly Literate
Can you judge a person by his or her reading habits? Apparently not.
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Can you judge a person by his or her reading habits? Apparently not.
Read MoreDissecting the implications of French and American Literature and mentality.
Read MoreExploring the author-reader relationship; Is it acceptable to want some recognition?
Read MoreCognizant of the danger upon which I place myself in asserting the following declaration, I will nonetheless state it: I cannot stand Colin Firth. For those of you who dwell …
Read MoreI first read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” in the novel’s original Spanish. Marquez’s rhetoric transported me into a world that I didn’t suspect I would ever …
Read More“I Was a Teenage Illiterate,” is the title of the New York Times article by Cathleen Shine my father emailed me earlier this week. “Seriously, Dad?” was my initial reaction …
Read MoreYesterday I was officially initiated into the society of the Baker Street Irregulars. It wasn’t actually an official induction—I would probably have to be in London for that to occur, …
Read MoreYou know how there’s always this one person or event, or this one incident that once you’ve encountered, you are never able to liberate yourself from? This thing, person, or …
Read MoreOn a recent episode of the popular television show “How I Met Your Mother,” the protagonist, Ted Mosby, laments on the perils of the dating life. He says, “When you …
Read MoreMy life is boring. There is no other way to spin it. I almost never go to bed after 10PM and I like to wake up at 6AM to watch …
Read MoreThus far in my blogging career, with one post under my technological belt, I have discovered that blogging is quite a therapeutic activity. Ironically, the manner in which my catharsis …
Read MoreI am an English major. I am also a particularly slow reader. If you consider these two statements somewhat contradictory, you are certainly not the only one. The first time …
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