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A.S. Byatt and J.K. Rowling: High Lit versus Pop Lit
I like this. I tend overall to not agree with the writer of this article, who slams Byatt’s criticism of Rowling’s work(mm, double layers of literary slamming, how delicious) and agree rat… more →
Letters to the World
A.S. Byatt and J.K. Rowling: High Lit versus Pop Lit
ambergold wrote 2 months ago: I like this. I tend overall to not agree with the writer of this article, who slams Byatt’s cr … more →
Clarity is Hard to Achieve.
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samuraipoet wrote 3 months ago: - Note - The excerpt below is from a prosody assignment I finished recently. I’m posting it he … more →
Waiting...
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Reid wrote 3 months ago: Today, I woke up with only ONE, count it, ONE snooze-button-press. Why? Well, when my alarm went off … more →
300 word mini-explication
samuraipoet wrote 4 months ago: This was the last assignment I turned in for poetry class. Had to be between 200 and 300 words … more →
I love Tolkien, oh so much!
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samuraipoet wrote 4 months ago: Dragon Helm of Turin I’ve been eyeing deluxe editions of all the major Tolkien texts on amazon … more →
Too many topics: Mistake
samuraipoet wrote 4 months ago: I just turned in this paper; “Gender Dialogue in the Augustan Age” When I got done, I realized that … more →
Charon, Ferryman to the Stars
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mmarano1 wrote 9 months ago: So we’re reading The Aeneid in Brit Lit. This was born from my studies of the text. If you hav … more →
School...again
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slightlysadistic wrote 10 months ago: Rather than get a second job, or perhaps while I wait for a second job to find me, I’m taking … more →
The Master, Colm Toibin
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ambergold wrote 11 months ago: I’m reading Colm Toibin’s The Master, and finding it deeply, elusively disturbing. This … more →
Meanderings
ambergold wrote 1 year ago: Reading an old post over at Returnings, I was struck by something. She quoted the following “Einmal … more →
The Comfort of Strangers, Continued
ambergold wrote 1 year ago: Horrible. Horrible horrible horrible. I must say, I’m disappointed in Ian McEwan. Did he think … more →
The Comfort of Strangers
ambergold wrote 1 year ago: “Alone, perhaps, they could have explored the city with pleasure, followed whims, dispensed wi … more →
Missing and Misued Language
Than wrote 1 year ago: Today’s word of the day is… Dramastically: striking, startling, exponential, possibly th … more →
'Twould drink the cup and all.
Than wrote 1 year ago: Act 1, Scene 1, line 21, quoth the Bishop of Canterbury, “Henry V.” Evidently I was mist … more →
Feeling British
Than wrote 1 year ago: Which is entirely ludicrous. My family hasn’t been “british” for at least two gen … more →
The Secret
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ambergold wrote 1 year ago: Stars: 3/5 Charlotte Bronte’s The Secret, written when she was a teenager, is a collection of … more →
I "think about happiness all the time"
ambergold wrote 1 year ago: Stars: 4.5/5 Anita Brookner’s Booker-Prize winning novel is a deft and lyrical work, a moving … more →
Lisa Gerrard and flowers
ambergold wrote 2 years ago: Lisa Gerrard is the composer/singer who did the Gladiator music, that breathtakingly haunting stuff, … more →
Alphabet Weekends
bookblog2006 wrote 2 years ago: Alphabet Weekends by Elizabeth Noble Why did I read it? I heard it mentioned on the nest book club … more →
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