Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Nineteen Minutes

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I continue swiftly along on my Jodi Picoult rampage (if one can call cruising through an author's set of books a rampage). Last week I f...
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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Downtown Owl

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Chuck Klosterman's first (and only to date) piece of fiction, Downtown Owl , was a really interesting read. I've read some of his no...
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Friday, April 9, 2010

Diary

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I couldn't put down Chuck Palahniuk's Diary today. I finished it all in one day. Palahniuk is a writer that fascinates me. He comes ...
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Saturday, April 3, 2010

Billy Corgan

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Billy Corgan, rock god? Rolling Stone recently covered Corgan's current life in an article with the title "Rock God, Interrupted....
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Friday, April 2, 2010

The Marriage Ref

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What is Jerry Seinfeld thinking? Now, don't get me wrong. Jerry Seinfeld is a comedy legend. He's one of my favorite comedians/write...
Monday, March 29, 2010

Vanishing Acts

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On my Jodi Picoult binge, I've just finished Vanishing Acts , another one of her works. I wasn't as hooked or impressed with this no...
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Sunday, March 28, 2010

Foo Fighters Unplugged

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It's about time that Foo Fighters did Unplugged . The show has been allowing artists that are not Unplugged -worthy. They are either too...
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Memoirs: The Criticism

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Memoir is definitely my favorite literary genre. Don't ask me why, but I find something entirely powerful with a person who opens themse...
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Saturday, March 27, 2010

The Dahn Yoga Cult

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Yesterday, I read an article in Rolling Stone on the Dahn Yoga Cult. I had never heard of them before, but I was somehow sucked into the art...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

From the Lives of My Friends

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The New Yorker has really got me into the twin poets Michael and Matthew Dickman. Every time I see a poem of theirs, I get really excited. I...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Cryonics

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Have you ever heard of cryonics? This morning, I read an article in The New Yorker on cryonics. I have heard of it before, but I had never r...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Ashes of Roses

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In the spirit of the historical fiction research paper my students are writing, I chose to read a popular YA historical fiction title, Ashes...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Live Your Life

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This blog post is ENTIRELY NOT MINE. I am copying it over from an issue of The New Yorker . It is written by Dave Cowen, and it is absolutel...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Imagery-Rehearsal Therapy

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Ever have recurring bad nightmares? Well, according to a study completed by Barry Krakow in 2001 (published in The Journal of the American M...
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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Change of Heart

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On my rampage of reading Jodi Picoult novels, I have just finished reading another one of her novels, Change of Heart . At first, the plot d...
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