it had taken her an hour to realize she had left off
where she had started

you will be disappointed,
continue
then only will it be worth anything

Hayley Lapalme ( Read more... )

"There's no sweeter way to spend time -- taking the long view -- than reading books and then, perhaps, writing about them. (Sex and hamburgers are all very well, but they can have unlooked-for side effects.) That said, there can be weeks when nothing extraordinarily terrific comes under your nose. Books become something like weeknight dinners -- ( Read more... )

Alice Munro just makes characters that are so fucked, fully fucked, because it’s honest. She fills the void in literature for the truth, not the ultimate truth, not a lie, masquerading, cascading, parading as some glimmering, glorious, victorious heroine with perfect lips, perfect hips, and a boy to hold he hand, not help her stand, just be her ( Read more... )

i feel happy, some parts love, some parts lost ( Read more... )

The narrator is horribly conflicted, recognizes this, and is unable to reconcile her feelings. At it's core, she is envious of wild, worldly, but agrestic aunts who are relatively dismissive of the externally imposed value system she cannot escape. She strives to shake her backwood beginnings with a bouregois affinity towards acquiring positional ( Read more... )

My role as a university student allows me to be the agent of my education. Within the formal academic structure of McGill University, I am a vehicle mobile to pursue the scholarship, expertise, and topics I desire. My scholarship depends upon my agency. A professor before a classroom is not a lesson, but a cue to shift from neutral into gear ( Read more... )

He is focusing too closely on something nobody else can hear. His question betrays an effort for detachment, asking if there is cheese in her sandwich ( Read more... )

1. it turns out i've read HP V, so I just have VI and VII to go... I got the VI Half Blood Prince at the McGill library... after paying $39 in fines for my overdue peacebooks for the EAPR writing class, gah ( Read more... )