I had the (mostly) pleasure of taking a course in Canadian Fiction at the university this year. Like my Victorian Fiction class, I enjoyed the reading material much more than I enjoyed the class itself. I think that if I am being honest, all of my classes tend to be like that. After all, most [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2008’
Sunday Salon: Snow
Looking at the title of this post freaks me out a little bit, because we just had a long, cold, snowy winter, and even though flowers are coming out, it’s hard to believe that winter is finally over. (I hope it’s finally over — we did have snow as recently as the 8th or 9th, [...]
Lists and Categories
I ran across a link to this today, which is the 110 Best Books as determined by The Telegraph. I don’t know if there’s anything particularly new or original about it — people are always making lists of “best” books — but a couple of things did catch my eye. One of the things I [...]
BTT: Vocabulary
Suggested by Nithin: I’ve always wondered what other people do when they come across a word/phrase that they’ve never heard before. I mean, do they jot it down on paper so they can look it up later, or do they stop reading to look it up on the dictionary/google it or do they just continue [...]
Review: Four Secrets to Liking Your Work, by Munzio, Fisher, and Thomas
Title: Four Secrets to Liking Your Work: You May Not Need to Quit to Get the Job You Want Authors: Edward G. Munzio, Deborah J. Fisher, and Erv Thomas Originally Published: 2008 This Edition: 2008 (ARC) ISBN: 9780132344456 / 0132344459 This is yet another book from LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program. I received it probably about [...]
Review: Dining with Death, by Kathleen Molloy
Title: Dining with Death Author: Kathleeen Molloy Originally Published: 2008 This Edition: 2008 (ARC) ISBN: 9780978459901 This book came to me a few days ago for review, and I read it pretty much straightaway — well, as soon as I finished the other book I was reading, anyway. And since then, I’ve been thinking and [...]
Sunday Salon: Happily Cataloguing
I’m actually not planning on doing much reading today. I finished one book, and I want to make sure that I write its review before I start anything else, just so that it’s fresher. Instead, I am cataloguing, over at LibraryThing. I love cataloguing. It just appeals to me all over. I like putting things [...]
Victorian Fiction, Woo!
This past year I took a Victorian Fiction course. It was actually called “British Fiction 1832-1900″ — but Victorian Fiction, I think, is what is really meant. English Victorian fiction, at that; for all the “British” in the title we only ended up reading one work which weren’t by an English author. At any rate, [...]