I bought The Best Travel Writing 2011 for a discount, and now I’m savoring each story bit by bit. It’s interesting that I’ve been reading this while I’m riding the jeepney or the bus — during those short, bumpy, dusty journeys, in other words. Travel literature is a relatively new genre for me; I considered… Continue reading Friday Reads: The Best Travel Writing 2011
I’m actually reading some books and articles on literary theory at the moment, but I don’t want to get into that. 🙂 I want to talk about this book — The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Seventeen-year-old Hazel is a cancer patient. She falls in love with a survivor, Augustus Waters. It’s a… Continue reading Friday Reading: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
I think I’m a Margaret Atwood fan. I never get tired of her Variations poems, and her novels The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace are contemporary favorites of mine. I started reading The Handmaid’s Tale ages ago until I lost the book in the middle of reading it — so here I am, starting again.… Continue reading Friday Reading: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
I am currently at the airport — the terminal recently famous in the news for its defective CCTV cameras — as I’m waiting for a flight that will whisk me off to Vietnam. 🙂 I had a dream this morning about wielding a wand and casting a Shield Charm to unknown opponents, and when I… Continue reading Friday Reading: Revisiting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for the nth time
Every Friday, I will post a pseudo-review of a book I’m reading, or have read, that week. I know it’s not a Friday, but I read this last Friday and I was at the beach. So there! In hindsight, it should have been very embarrassing and pathetic when I asked two bookstores in my usual… Continue reading Friday Reading: The ten most distracting words/phrases in Fifty Shades of Grey
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