I have been thinking of a good way to start this post and to be honest, I couldn’t really think of something more witty but I kept thinking back to when I first read Jane Eyre. This was during my senior year in high school and Read More …
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IMHO: Reading The Real Lolita in San Juan
Full disclosure, I have never really been interested in Lolita. It’s one of those novels that one feels one MUST read because of the place they have been given in the canon. Maybe if I had not known much about it I would have lasted a Read More …
Re-Engage : Never The Same Twice
There is a scene early in the 1990 movie The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter where the protagonist Bastian Bux has this exchange with the book seller Mr. Coreander: Koreander: [spotting Bastian with the book] Put it back! [Bastian jumps and ends up slamming the book Read More …
Kissing Books: On Romance,Chicks and Missconceptions
Sometimes you are watching a movie and someone says something that makes you almost jump and say “That’s me!”. If there is one that made me do that it’s in The Princess Bride. The boy, having agreed to have his grandfather read him a story that was Read More …