Hello dear friends! I promise, I am alive and kicking still. (Do I say that with every entry now??). miss_sarac mentioned I haven't posted in a long time and when I looked at my archives, I was shocked to see I have not posted since July. For shame Sarah ( Read more... )

I've recently discovered a 560 page book I have to get my hands on. It's called: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The plot:
The narrator of The Book Thief is many things -- sardonic, wry, darkly humorous, compassionate -- but not especially proud. As author Marcus Zusak channels him, Death -- who doesn't carry a scythe but gets a kick out of the ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday heather13!!
I hope today has been wonderful for you.

( The Rash to end all rashes. )

For anyone interested in a truly powerful and invigorating, if complex look, at the role of modern identities in light of the Holocaust, you can't go wrong reading Mirrors of Destruction by Omer Bartov. I've been rereading parts of it for my senior seminar paper and yet again I'm just really drawn into the insights he makes about the nature of war ( Read more... )

Doing senior seminar stuff. I haven't actually typed a page or even opened my paper, but I have been nuts going through all my materials. I feel productive doing this at least. I think I'm going to do it tomorrow too, and then start typing this week again. I really should have organized my materials better over break, but I was lazy. It's just ( Read more... )