Somewhat ashamed to admit that I’ve never read anything by David Foster Wallace. Worse, I didn’t even know who he was until I learned of his suicide, and now almost every blog I read is gushing about him. And so I’m curious, naturally. Who was this man, and what made his prose so wonderful?

My brother has recommended Consider The Lobster. Anything ( Read more... )

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
1922-2007

Generally speaking, I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions, mostly because I tend not to keep them. However, I have two this year:

• Read more.
• Write more.

Best to keep it modest, I suppose.

One question lingers: first-person limited or third-person omniscient? This debate has been raging for years.

Hogwarts is in the LJ directory of schools.

That totally made my day.

A Literary Map of Manhattan

I run with lit-geek circles, but I live in constant fear that I will be discovered as an illiterate half-wit. I have not picked up a good book in quite some time; just about everything I read these days is a news article or the user manual for shiny-thing-of-the-week ( Read more... )

I finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in four hours! I must say, when my mind is on, it is on.

Off to start Prisoner of Azkaban. What a great way to start a Tuesday!

On with the show!

- I’ve finally gotten around to reading the Harry Potter books. I checked out the first three from the library a few days ago. My local library has them in the children’s section, and I haven’t been to the children’s section since I was ten or something. I felt very...tall. Anyway, I’ve only gotten through the first so far. My ( Read more... )