I just finished A Short History of England by R.J. White, which gave me lots of excuses to read parts of my Dictionary of British History that I had never touched ( Read more... )

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So true.

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Just finished:

Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli. The title that is is sometimes also know as is The Two Nations which is the original title. The two nations being the rich and the poor in England 1830's and 1840's.

Terribly insightful, difficult to get through some parts, but really good detail in areas that I have not yet encountered elsewhere.

...I get to the point that I play video games. After I finished my book earlier this evening I looked for something else to read and found nothing to satisfy the brain. I pulled out the nintendo files on the compter that I have and played for a minute, but was not satisfied due to hating playing games on the computer. Mark then says there is an old ( Read more... )

Slumdog Millionaire

Best movie I've seen in quite a while... so worth it.

For the next 8 days, you post something that makes you happy during that day. Then you tag eight other people to be a part of the meme. I'm with her, I think that this is something that someone put together to keep people up through the holidays ( Read more... )

So yesterday I went and picked up some books for next term and dove into reading. I am now over half way done with "Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community and the Mormons." by Lawrence Foster Leave a comment

I named 42 US states in 10 minutes
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So I woke up with the thought to reread Habermas' "The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere ( Read more... )