Ulysses by James Joyce
Read my review here! #jamesjoyce #ulysses #review
Happy Birthday, Proust!
Today would've been the 143rd bday of the author of In Search of Lost Time. Remember when I actually made it through Swann's Way? Yeah... I'm pretty awesome. #marcelproust #insearchoflosttime #swannsway #birthday
...And that's all I have to say about that.
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I can do it! I can do it!
This weekend, Husband and I took Lorelai for her first trip to our cabin in upstate New York. Generally the cabin is an opportunity to get in 48 hours of reading, only interrupted by consuming mass quantities of alcohol and Cool Ranch Doritos. Not so much with a 14 month in tow. So, you'd think that in the few minutes I could sneak some reading in, I'd be more apt to read something "fun". But guys, I'm maturing! Unlike Lorelai Gilmore, this Lorelai likes the outdoors Inst
Another sucker thrown into this mess...
"I don't even like kids. They're always sticky like they've got jam on their hands. Even if there's no jam in the house, somehow, they've always got jam on their hands! I'm not the right guy to deal with that. I have no patience for jam hands! " Well, Luke... looks like you have some Welch's Grape smeared all over your furniture in your future! Welcome to the world, Nicholas! #scottpatterson #baby #lukedanes
Think I can get away with reading only that chapter?
Slate may be on my shit list for Ruth Graham's ignorant rant against YA, but I thoroughly enjoyed this article. Joyce's Ulysses: The Only Chapter Worth Reading I may feel differently about it once I've finally hit that last page, but right now, I'm about here:Ulysses is an overwrought, overwritten epic of gratingly obvious, self-congratulatory, show-off erudition that, with its overstuffed symbolism and leaden attempts at humor, is bearable only by terminal graduate students
Spending Stephen King's money
On my way into work, I was listening to one of BookRiot's podcasts and came across this story that amused me greatly. Emily Schultz is an author. Emily Schultz wrote a book titled Joyland. Stephen King is an author. Stephen King wrote a book titled Joyland. And that's where things got messy. Emily Schultz started noticing that she was getting negative reviews on her Amazon listing. Apparently people who don't know how to spell Stephen King were purchasing her ebook, thinki
