and then she blabbers about them here.
Hodie Christus natus est:
hodie Salvator apparuit:
hodie in terra canunt Angeli,
lætantur Archangeli:
hodie exsultant justi, dicentes:
Gloria in excelsis Deo,
et in terra pax hominibus bonæ voluntatis:
Alleluia.
Merry Christmas, one and all.
This blog will be on hiatus until January (as should yours be: eat, drink, be merry!).
I had an exam today, ENG331, two hours of Renaissance Drama before being officially done school for the winter break. No sweat, really; we’d been given the essay questions in advance, so it was really a question of matching some answers and then writing an essay from a mentally outlined essay prepared in advance.
Except.
I got to the exam centre well ahead of time, and sat down to review some notes and wait around until we could begin. After a while I realized that I hadn’t spotted any of my classmates the whole time. Kind of unusual, but it was a big place, and so I didn’t think too much of it.
(A practical survival guide in case you should ever find yourself in a play written during the English Renaissance.)
1. Try to ascertain whether you are in a comedy or a tragedy: Comedies may feature cross-dressing, fairies, forests, crude sexual humour, and illicit romance. Tragedies may feature murder, incest, madness, gratuitously violent acts, crude sexual humour, and some seriously illicit romance.
If you’re trapped in a comedy, take heart: hardly anyone ever dies in a comedy. If you’re trapped in a tragedy, the rest of this guide may prove useful.
Recent search terms, because they amuse me:
how to talk paraguay languish I suspect that this means “how to talk paraguay language” which might be more usefully rewritten as “learn to speak Spanish” … or Guaraní. If you want to know how to talk to languishing Paraguayans, I probably can’t help you.
WHAT DO i DO WITH UNWANTED BOOKS PROBABLY YELLING IS NOT THE FIRST STEP. TRY LOOKING HERE INSTEAD. THANK YOU.
No, really.
As term draws to an end (at last) I am left to face the mountain of housework and other general upkeep things that tend to get pushed to the bottom of the to-do list when school gets busy. One of the things I’ve fallen behind on is this blog, not just in terms of updates but also in terms of design, navigation, archive management, etc.
So there’s some stuff to do — but of course, school has killed my brain, and I don’t remember what the half of it was. Which is where you come in.
Many of you will have already seen the post entitled Sad News posted on Dewey’s blog by her husband. She passed away last Tuesday.
I can’t pretend that I will miss Dewey in the same way that her family and (offline) friends will. But I respected and admired her, and I will miss her posts, her generosity, and her seemingly tireless enthusiasm for books and readers.
Dewey was the force behind Weekly Geeks and the semi-annual Read-a-Thons, as well as the Bookworms Carnivals. She was, I think, a true pillar of the book-blogging community.
. . . Here are some things that amuse me:
There’s been a certain amount of debate in the book blogosphere recently about the role that book bloggers do and/or should play in reviewing books, and about authors behaving badly (here too), and such other sundry things. I haven’t been commenting on this much on other people’s blogs, but I have been ruminating thereupon, and have reached some conclusions, at least as far as this blog is concerned.
I have decided that, as of this point forward, I will no longer be accepting books for review from authors, publishers, or publicists. There may be some exceptions to this rule, but they are not really worth mentioning at this point. My about page will soon be modified to reflect this change.