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Books read 2014
I was bad at meeting my challenges, but I did have a wonderful year of reading.
Books read 2014
Aim: 144 booksChallenges to diversify my reading ( Read more... ) -
Oooh, pretty stuff!
Are you shocked that I'm updating? I am! I was going on tumblr prior to working on my thesis proposal, and I had the fleeting thought that I should update my livejournal. And then I actually opened a new tab and went to livejournal. Very weird ( Read more... ) -
Books read 2013
Books read 2013 So, my excuse for not getting anywhere near my yearly reading goal [144 books] is that I finished a masters by coursework thesis which was 24000words, which required a lot of reading itself (a lot of it journal articles and chapters that are not included in the list); that I had a lot of migraines which made it difficult to read; ( Read more... ) -
Books read 2012
Books first time read:Bill Condon, A Straight Line to My Heart ( Read more... ) -
update
It has been a long time since I've updated my livejournal blog. so here I am ( Read more... ) -
the REAL method of a thesis...
While doing a paper on my research so far, there was a part that involved stating the method of our research. Well, for all the blather I wrote there here is the real, daily, method ( Read more... ) -
on Freud...
This quote is from Terry Eagleton, Literary theory: an introduction, p. 161.
'The ego is a pitiable, precarious entity, battered by the external world, scourged by the cruel upbraidings of the superego, plagued by the greedy, insatiable demands of the id. Freud's compassion for the ego is a compassion for the human race, labouring under the ( Read more... ) -
Nabokov and butterflies...
In his poem “On Discovering a Butterfly,” Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov wrote of “the secluded stronghold” where specimens are kept “safe from creeping relatives and rust.” When Nabokov caught a frosty-blue butterfly in France in 1938, he brought it to the stronghold of the American Museum of Natural History, where it still sits with a bright red ( Read more... ) -
oh I can't wait!
Gosh, I just got over the excitement of waiting for The FitzOsbornes in Exile to come out, and of waiting to meet the Weasley twins and get their autographs (which was very exciting!), and now there is more excitement to come!
JKR's new book!It has a title and a release date ( Read more... )
