Teaser Tuesdays: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
byRecently there was this huge discussion regarding male authors vs female authors after a controversial comment from V.S.Naipaul. There is also this very entertaining…
Quotes
The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the…
- Rubbing a Little Salt in my Mom’s Wounds – She’s not Happy About Cleaning my Dad’s Bookshelves
Teaser Tuesdays: Midnight’s Children
byBecause this is Rushdie, I cannot restrict myself to just one. Here are two quotable quotes I came across today that I definitely had…
A Passage from Bleak House
byI have been so tied up with work and life in general that reading is taking a bit of a backseat…however, I had marked…
The May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss Contest
byI was tagged by Dhiman into doing this contest. The Rules: 1. On your blog, provide a link to the Great Bong’s page, May…
Long but Lovely Speech on Education by Obama
byREMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT IN A NATIONAL ADDRESS TO AMERICA’S SCHOOLCHILDREN Wakefield High School Arlington, Virginia 12:06 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! Thank…
Belated Post In Honor of Chocolates!
byI came to find out that World Chocolate Day was being celebrated on September 4th through Radio One. And I immediately knew I had…
I don’t really follow politics too closely, particularly American politics. But today, when I got the news that Ted Kennedy (Democratic Party senator from…
- RIP: Ted Kennedy
Some Poetry can be so Humbling…
byI met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on…
Virginia Woolf’s Superb Way with Words
byWhat beautifully-worded sentences and with so much meaning. They don’t make them like her anymore… Without self–confidence we are as babes in the cradle….