Originally posted on Associated Content. Check it out there and leave me some feedback. Ash is the first book by new author Malinda Lo, a retelling of the Cinderella story with the dark influence of Celtic faerie mythology and several new twists. Aisling, called Ash for short, is the Cinderella analogue of the story, and [...]
This week, for the first time in several years, I stayed up until 3 A.M. reading a book. A fiction book, at that! It used to be a pretty regular occurrence, a way of life while I was in high school and the early years of college. For the past few years, though, I’ve just [...]
The library means so many things to grad students. It’s a place to scour shelves for dusty old books (50 of which you will check out, haul home, and not return for three years). A place to work for long hours (especially if the library assigns carrels to grad students). A place to eat (since [...]
I took this weekend to do some reading for pleasure, rather than seeing just how close I could get a match to the pages of Bakhtin’s “The Dialogic Imagination” without setting the pages on fire. I always forget how much my favorite pastime relaxes me (the reading, not the fire). It’s like a ‘reset’ button [...]
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