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Reading Notes

Posted in Books, Personal on October 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Recently Sylvia wrote a great post about her reading notes and even has a photo from her notebook. I am so impressed by her note taking that I have been thinking about my own note taking–or lack thereof–ever since.
I mentioned yesterday that I considered giving up on Proust. One of the reasons was the [...]

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Proust on Writers

Posted in Books, Proust on October 10, 2006 | 2 Comments »

Cross-posted at Involuntary Memory
I am moving along through In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower. I am not moving along as fast as I would like, but even slow is good considering after finishing Swann’s Way I had a day or two of resistance to continuing the endeavor. But I am glad I am [...]

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B Movie Fun

Posted in Movies on October 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Since I read I am Legend by Richard Matheson as a RIP challenge book, and since my Bookman had read the book long ago, we rented the movie The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston. Talk about your B movie!
There were great liberties taken with the story from the book. Instead of vampires the movie [...]

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Nature

Posted in Emerson, Essays, Philosophy on October 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

I have re-read Emerson’s essay, Nature, and pronounce it wow. There is so much in it that I could go on and on and on. It’s one of those essays that would be fun to sit around a fire with a bunch of friends and stay up all night just talking about it. BikeProf [...]

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That Pure October Weather

Posted in Books, Emerson on October 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

There are days which occur in this climate, at almost any season of the year, wherein the world reaches its perfection; when the air, the heavenly bodies and the earth, make harmony, as if nature would indulge her offspring; when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet, nothing is to desire that we have [...]

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Book Reviews and Ads

Posted in Books on October 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

My subscription to the New York Review of Books will soon be expiring as the frequent notices of renewal in my mailbox keep reminding me. This is the first time I ever subscribed to it and I was disappointed. I didn’t find much on fiction and there seems to be a big focus on political [...]

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Halloween Meme

Posted in Memes on October 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Literate Kitten has a Halloween meme so I thought I’d take a book break and play along.

What is you favorite work of horror fiction? This is hard because I don’t read a lot of horror fiction because I have a tendency to get nightmares. So I’m going to go with Shirley Jackson’s story “The Lottery” [...]

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Vampires

Posted in Books, Challenges, Reviews on October 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Another RIP Book completed! I finished I am Legend by Richard Matheson. If my Bookman had not insisted I read it for the challenge I never would have. He is an enjoyer of all things vampiric and I am rather indifferent (thought I loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
Our copy is a 1954 book club edition [...]

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Alyss in Wonderland

Posted in Books, Challenges, Science Fiction/Fantasy on October 3, 2006 | 1 Comment »

I finished reading The Looking Glass Wars the other day. I must say I quite enjoyed it. The book is no earth-shattering classic to sit alongside Lewis Carroll’s books, but it is entertaining and sometimes that’s all one wants.
The story is not a complete reworking of Alice in Wonderland. Beddor takes pieces of the Alice [...]

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Poetry

Posted in Poetry on October 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

The stars have aligned and poetry is everywhere. Dorothy has a great post today about poetry. But even before that, I was thinking about it. I’ve somehow managed to up my annual poetry book quotient from an average of one per year to two so far this year and I am well on my way [...]

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