This week's ENG101 reading was from a book called The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. The author, Sven Birkerts, is a literary critic, but first and foremost a lover of books and reading in general. His book strives to warn people about the effect technology is having on reading- not really that people aren't reading ( Read more... )

I've lost count of the number of times I've talked about it...

At any rate, newsbox_addict had an amazing article about the bill that actually passed, and what's in it. (That is an awesome community, BTW, and everyone should join it.) You can check it out there, or here at the original source ( Read more... )

So I just joined a great community I found through the Spotlight. It's called linebyline and it gives you a line or piece of dialogue or something that you have to use in your writing. It's really cool. This is a poem I wrote for that, with the line being "like a flood"

It's about my sadness/tears and how God stops them and makes me happy again.

( Like a Flood )