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Caramelo, B
Title: Caramelo
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Summary/Buy me: Here!
Genre: ethnic family fiction
Pages: 430
Rating: B
Notes: Passable. Often sweet, sometimes thoughtful, never tragic. Use of sentence fragments is effective for evocative narration, otherwise little or no creative risk. I have a sincere dislike for footnotes and epilogues, both of which ( Read more... ) -
History Lesson
How Fred Flintstone Got Home, Got Wild, And Got A Stone Age Life -- Larry Doyle
as it appears in the May 15, 2006 edition of The New YorkerA screeching comes across the sky. Stately, plump Fred Flintstone stood upon the 'saur's head, bearing a boulder of granite, on which a bird perched, its eyes crossed. An orange dressing gown, ungirdled, was ( Read more... ) -
Self-Taught
I have wanted to learn to play the guitar since I was seven years old.
My mother was afraid the strings would ruin my fingertips.
My mother was right.
(They are literally swollen and purple and fucking ow.) -
WHOOHOO!
I got a 5 on my AP English test!
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Should Be? Should Buzz!
"Life sucks, but the alternative is unacceptable."
On first impulse, I agree with this statement. On second thought, I don't. I still don't know how I feel about it. -
Pretty Youth
Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mold into whatever shape he likes. So it was with Holgrave. He could talk sagely about the world's old age, but never actually believed what he said; he was a young man still, and ( Read more... ) -
Riotous Bloom
“Peonies”, Mary Oliver ( Read more... ) -
Light
"A Box of Pastels ( Read more... )