tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60760228342766459452011-10-06T15:34:15.648-03:00World of PretentionHilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-71905024065274774242011-03-13T11:09:00.000-03:002011-03-13T11:09:35.640-03:00The Correspondence of Charles LambPLEASE NOTE:
This essay was written by me in November 2010 for submission on December 1 2010 to my 3rd year Romantic Literature class with Professor Musgrove at the University of Ottawa. Until today (March 13 2011), no one has had access to it except me and my professor. If this paper was submitted to you in 2011 or later in whole or in part, then it was plagiarized.
Also, if you are a student Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-67181859320048080772011-03-05T08:27:00.000-04:002011-03-05T08:27:24.937-04:00Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of WomanPLEASE NOTE:
This essay was written by me in November 2010 for submission on November 12 2010 to my 3rd year Romantic Literature class with Professor Musgrove at the University of Ottawa. Until today (March 5 2011), no one has had access to it except me and my professor. If this paper was submitted to you in 2011 or later in whole or in part, then it was plagiarized.
Also, if you are a Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-35299373840409211242011-02-27T14:06:00.000-04:002011-02-27T14:06:31.593-04:00Scientific Research in Mary Shelley's FrankensteinPLEASE NOTE:
This essay was written by me in November 2010 for submission on November 5 2010 to my 3rd year Romantic Literature class with Professor Musgrove at the University of Ottawa. Until today (February 27 2011), no one has had access to it except me and my professor. If this paper was submitted to you in 2011 or later in whole or in part, then it was plagiarized.
Also, if you are a Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-11434233008760482802011-02-19T14:01:00.000-04:002011-02-19T14:01:09.536-04:00Negative Capability in John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn"PLEASE NOTE:
This essay was written by me in October 2010 for submission on October 22 2010 to my 3rd year Romantic Literature class with Professor Musgrove at the University of Ottawa. Until today (February 19 2011), no one has had access to it except me and my professor. If this paper was submitted to you in 2011 or later in whole or in part, then it was plagiarized.
Also, if you are a Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-2802673058008842522011-02-12T23:48:00.006-04:002011-02-12T23:52:58.372-04:00Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias"PLEASE NOTE:
This essay was written by me in October 2010 for submission on October 13 2010 to my 3rd year Romantic Literature class with Professor Musgrove at the University of Ottawa. Until today (February 12 2011), no one has had access to it except me and my professor. If this paper was submitted to you in 2011 or later in whole or in part, then it was plagiarized.
Also, if you are Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-49680077704889133392011-01-29T10:19:00.003-04:002011-02-12T23:50:49.444-04:00The Lesson Learned in Coleridge's "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison"PLEASE NOTE:
This essay was written by me in September 2010 for submission on September 29 2010 to my 3rd year Romantic Literature class with Professor Musgrove at the University of Ottawa. Until today (January 29 2011), no one has had access to it except me and my professor. If this paper was submitted to you in 2011 or later in whole or in part, then it was plagiarized.
Also, if you are a Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-71782561462659526402011-01-22T10:54:00.002-04:002011-02-12T23:53:33.575-04:00Immutable Bonds of Community in Wordsworth’s "We Are Seven"PLEASE NOTE:
This essay was written by me in September 2010 for submission on September 22 2010 to my 3rd year Romantic Literature class with Professor Musgrove at the University of Ottawa. Until today (January 22 2011), no one has had access to it except me and my professor. If this paper was submitted to you in 2011 or later in whole or in part, then it was plagiarized.
Also, if you are a Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-79605367892584636252011-01-19T21:31:00.002-04:002011-02-12T23:44:14.947-04:00Hil Knits 2Des and I made this toy art piece for our first nephew, Noah.
Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-9113389420714093932011-01-16T13:01:00.002-04:002011-02-12T23:54:43.003-04:00"Put Him In the Cellar": Heathcliff and Place in Wuthering HeightsPLEASE NOTE:
This essay was written by me in 2010 for submission on December 10 2010 to my 4th year Literary Theory Seminar with Professor Childs at the University of Ottawa. Until today (January 16 2011), no one has had access to it except me and my professor. If this paper was submitted to you in 2011 or later in whole or in part, then it was plagiarized.
Also, if you are a student Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-74878102161522849422011-01-08T14:04:00.002-04:002011-02-12T23:55:13.906-04:00The Fracturing Consensus in Pope, Gray, and Wordsworth: How the Rise of Modernism Changed Poetry in the Eighteenth CenturyPLEASE NOTE:
This essay was written by me in the fall of 2010 for submission on November 24 2010 to my 3rd year Eighteenth Century Literature course with Professor Rooney at the University of Ottawa. Until today (January 8 2011), no one has had access to it except me and my professor. If this paper was submitted to you in 2011 or later in whole or in part, then it was plagiarized.
Also, if you Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-45025448959683329612010-08-05T19:29:00.000-03:002010-08-05T19:29:10.356-03:00The Man in the Brown SuitAuthor: Agatha Christie (1890-1976, England)
Published: 1924
Oh, Agatha Christie, you never disappoint. Of course, the movie versions sometimes pick up the slack to disappoint in your absence. For instance, this book has a very exciting jewel heist related plot, with international travel and an orphan daughter of an academic making her way into the world. The movie should have been great, as itHilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-81991112990386958142010-07-30T19:36:00.000-03:002010-07-30T19:36:14.637-03:00Black HoleAuthor: Charles Burns (1955-, United States of America)
Published: 1995-2005
Oh, graphic novels. I keep hoping for the best, and I keep finding myself not enjoying them.
I discovered this book when I acted on Matthew's suggestion and got Ivan Brunettis' Anthology of Graphic Fiction out of the library. I read through it, skipping ones that I despised the art for, or that alienated me within a Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-53107907928475078322010-07-29T08:08:00.000-03:002010-07-29T08:08:13.640-03:00Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined AmericaAuthor: Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-, United States of America)
Published: 2009
I think this is my favourite non fiction book so far this year! Ehrenreich has a really personal and interesting narrative voice, and her subject matter is fascinating!
This book is about positive thinking. It begins by detailing Ehrenreich's introduction to the world of positive thinking when she had breast cancer. Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-86411347964846821682010-07-02T12:45:00.001-03:002010-07-03T21:25:55.688-03:00Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and WhyAuthor: Bart D. Ehrman (ca. 1955-, United States of America)
Published: 2005
I first became interested in the study of religion when I was 11. That was the year I began to doubt what my church was telling me. It hadn't really occurred to me before, or if it had, the doubt hadn't stuck. But at 11, I realized that I didn't actually believe that the things I had been told had literally happened. Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-90691312471123850542010-05-22T18:24:00.001-03:002010-05-22T21:58:53.123-03:00The Murder on the LinksAuthor: Agatha Christie (1890-1976, England)
Published: 1923
I was looking forward to this Christie Mystery less than any previous of her books, but it was next in the chronology, so I read it anyway. I can attribute my lack of enthusiasm entirely to the word "links." Perhaps I should clarify now: I don't care about sports. I am almost aggressively indifferent. And that carries over into golf.Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-7304595295533886862010-05-15T13:56:00.000-03:002010-05-15T13:56:46.286-03:00Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm BankAuthor: Randi Hutter Epstein (?-, United States of America)
Published: 2010
I'm not pregnant. My fiancé and I have the next couple of years planned out (flexibly, of course, but with a nice solid base to grow from) and a baby would shatter our dreams and intentions. We are borderline obsessive with birth control, with alarms and pills and extreme paranoia. But we also do definitely see Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-76475269867432656642010-04-17T23:30:00.002-03:002010-04-17T23:42:22.757-03:00Non/No on Bill 94I'd like to take a moment and say a few words about Jean Charest's Bill 94 that proposes to ban wearers of the niqab (and any other facial coverings) from accessing essential government services, including health care, and barring them from public employment and educational opportunities. I have heard many arguments that this is a just law, and have yet to find one that is the least bit Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-63412579364866352792010-04-11T17:22:00.000-03:002010-04-11T17:22:48.771-03:00The Secret AdversaryAuthor: Agatha Christie (1890-1976, England)
Published: 1922
This is Agatha Christie's second novel, and she leaves Poirot behind to introduce us to Tommy and Tuppence, a pair of bright young things adjusting to post-war England who decide to hire themselves out as 'adventurers'.
If Christie's first book exemplified the main reason I love her mysteries, that is, that in her books, murder is aHilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-15508697610676257442010-04-07T08:45:00.001-03:002010-04-07T08:45:35.715-03:00Flow: The Cultural Story of MenstruationAuthor: Elissa Stein (?-, United States of America) and Susan Kim (?-, United States of America)
Published: 2009
In case the title didn't tip you off to this fact, I'm going to be talking about periods in this post. If that makes you uncomfortable, I suggest that you stop reading right now. It's going to be graphic.
Here's what I like about my period: the moment of relief when I get it that Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-76296602298876574452010-04-03T10:29:00.000-03:002010-04-03T10:29:36.279-03:00In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of SpeedAuthor: Carl Honoré (?-, Canada)
Published: 2004
In Praise of Slow is a book about how modern society's fixation on doing everything as quickly as possible is damaging to us, and describes a movement bent on re-establishing the value of slowness, or, more accurately, the value of doing things at the appropriate speed, be it fast, slow, or in between. At the end of the book I found myself Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-12456686201381081212010-03-27T12:48:00.000-03:002010-03-27T12:48:08.735-03:00Once Upon a Time in the NorthAuthor: Philip Pullman (1946-, England)
Published: 2008
I love the His Dark Materials trilogy. I've read them twice, and I only wish that I'd read them as a child because I think they would've had a real impact on me then, as opposed to simply being a fun read now. It makes me really happy that alongside C.S. Lewis' Christian allegory Narnia series (which I also love) I'll be able to place on Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-50073308173134663982010-03-25T08:14:00.000-03:002010-03-25T08:14:45.149-03:00Kids Today - Notre-Dame of ParisAuthor: Victor Hugo (1802-1885, France)
Published: 1831
Introduction.
One group in particular of these merry young demons had broken in the glass of a window and sat boldly down on the entablature, whence their stares and raillery plunged alternately down inside and out, into the crown in the hall and the crowd in the square. It was easy to tell from their mimicry, their hoots of Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-56044356183440360122010-03-24T08:43:00.001-03:002011-01-08T14:06:12.540-04:00Notre-Dame of ParisAuthor: Victor Hugo (1802-1885, France)
Published: 1831
I have been meaning to read this book since I was five, but I really don't think I would have appreciated it then. At five, I discovered Hugo's work through the lens of Andrew Lloyd Webber when I fell in love with his musical Les Miserables, based on Hugo's 1862 novel. Though I had little to no comprehension of the finer points, and in Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-87833134910658645202010-03-23T20:28:00.000-03:002010-03-23T20:28:36.750-03:00Kids Today: An IntroductionThis is not a book. But it has been a theme that intrigued me since I first learned that my generation wasn't the first to be described as rotten, stupid, hopeless and destructive to traditional values. I had read countless accounts about my generation, a generation with many names, sometimes called the Mini Baby Boomers, sometimes Generation Y, and sometimes getting absorbed into the Millenials.Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-71718905892833101212010-03-21T16:35:00.001-03:002010-03-21T16:35:39.968-03:00Hil KnitsHere are a couple of tiny stuffed animals I knitted for a coworker's baby shower.
Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-10095096914091227602010-03-12T17:46:00.000-04:002010-03-12T17:46:34.504-04:00I RememberAuthor: Joe Brainard (1941-1994, United States of America)
Published: 1975
I remember walking Carla home from school on nearly summer days singing 'Alice the camel has 10 humps' very loudly.
I remember reading the first chapter of all the books I got out of the library because I couldn't decide which to read first. Then all the second chapters. And so on.
I remember trying to say the Lord's Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-30320206752334073002010-03-11T10:02:00.000-04:002010-03-11T10:02:12.389-04:00World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie WarAuthor: Max Brooks (1972-, United States of America)
Published: 2006
The premise of this book is fantastic. It is set ten years after a zombie epidemic breaks out in China and spreads around the world. The primary narrator travels around to talk with people who were on the forefront of the war against the zombies all over the world and transcribes the interviews.
Let's get my complaints out ofHilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-61159983957710605712010-03-10T10:04:00.000-04:002010-03-10T10:04:44.418-04:00In the Shadow of No TowersAuthor: Art Spiegelman (1948-, United States of America)
Published: 2002-2004
Art Spiegelman knows how to articulate vast horror in deceptively simple terms. Perhaps that is why this book about the attacks on the US on September 11, 2001 is so powerful and yet so readable.
Of course, it helps a great deal that he and I fall on the same side of the right/left equation. As he works to come to Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-43720024833873311212010-03-08T09:04:00.000-04:002010-03-08T09:04:10.087-04:00Let Me InAuthor: John Ajvide Lindqvist (1968-, Sweden)
Published: 2004
Let Me In, also called Let the Right One In intrigued me initially because both the book and the movie are touted as the anti-Twilight, and as I come down on the 'Twilight is the worst thing that could happen to young women' side of the literary debate, I felt the immediate urge to support anything that counteracted the anti-feministHilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-13405290063548776222010-03-07T12:30:00.000-04:002010-03-07T12:30:11.532-04:00The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things RightAuthor: Atul Gawande (1965-, United States of America)
Published: 2009
I started reading this book during some truly epic weather thinking that it would be an interesting counterpoint. I mean, a book about checklists in a torrential downpour? That's an amusing juxtaposition. I actually turned out to be kind of a bad choice for the timing, not because of the rain, but because I had a flight Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-50795185685080007822010-03-05T13:06:00.000-04:002010-03-05T13:06:19.658-04:00The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession With Weight Is Hazardous to Your HealthAuthor: Paul Campos (?-, United States of America)
Published: 2004
I had the flu a few weeks ago, a real stomach bug that made it impossible to eat for a few days. By the second day, I was miserable. Every tiny thing that went wrong was the end of the world, and I broke down into tears at the drop of a hat. Often in my life, this has been symptomatic of a depressive episode, but this had come Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-68732812950372085372010-03-04T12:19:00.000-04:002010-03-04T12:19:45.732-04:00The God DelusionAuthor: Richard Dawkins (1941-, England)
Published: 2006
Last summer I read Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs. It talked about how to use rhetoric to win arguments and convince people to do what you want them to do, and how the fall of rhetoric has been bad for politics. (This is not a book I would have Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-75362900618093687652010-02-28T11:34:00.000-04:002010-02-28T11:34:48.151-04:00Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic BookAuthor: The Nelson Mandela Foundation with Umlando Wezithombe (South Africa)
Published: 2005
I read this book completely on a whim. I'd heard of its North American release on some of the blogs I read, but without hearing if it was good or not. Of course, it's existence was a good thing: it's a comic book illustrated by a South African artistic collective about Nelson Mandela with his blessing. Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-41412048381354157652010-02-22T18:05:00.000-04:002010-02-22T18:05:27.554-04:00The Candle in the WindAuthor: T.H. White (1906-1964, England)
Published: 1958
I think that one of the most interesting aspects of reading or watching fiction set in the the distant and mythologized history of humanity generally, and the Middle Ages specifically, is seeing which of the three common tropes they emphasize.
There's the 'look how much worse life was back then' trope, which I mainly see in regards to thingsHilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-72057865164214934662010-02-13T20:41:00.001-04:002010-03-05T14:09:07.691-04:00The Complete Maus
Author: Art Spiegelman (1948-, United States of America)
Published: 1972-1991Whoa. This book can officially be added to my 'graphic novels I like' list. But it's so very different than the other ones that are on the list that I feel I should explain why I usually strongly dislike non fiction graphic novels.
In the non-fiction graphic novels that I have perused in my time, I've noticed a few Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-2608304251685828132010-02-07T16:24:00.001-04:002010-02-07T16:25:00.607-04:00The Ill-Made Knight
Author: T.H. White (1906-1964, England)
Published: 1940
The Ill-Made Knight continues White's The Once and Future King with a focus on the character of Lancelot Dulac, also known as The Ill-Made Knight. It chronicles how he learns about Arthur's idea that Might isn't Right, and that any Might should be funneled to fight on behalf of the weak and oppressed, and devotes his life to this idea, andHilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-84275795161597276222010-02-04T20:02:00.001-04:002010-02-04T20:03:27.903-04:00Killing Rage: Ending Racism
Author: bell hooks (1952-, United States of America)
Published:1995
I've been reading this book since the second week of January. It's a dense book with a lot of radical ideas and arguments that require real reflection. This has made me very, very nervous to write this post. I feel like there's a LOT that needs to be discussed, and yet I still feel very much that I'm at the listening phase when Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-4466085308297105922010-01-31T22:09:00.001-04:002010-02-01T08:15:13.881-04:00The Queen of Air and Darkness
Author: T.H. White (1906-1964, England)
Published: 1939
This is the second book in White's The Once and Future King tetralogy. In terms of timeline it follows directly from the first book, The Sword in the Stone and has two parallel plots. In one, the new King Arthur starts to think about the kind of kingdom he wants to have, and decides on a course of action to achieve it, with the help of Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-1620975084566769712010-01-20T18:59:00.000-04:002010-01-20T18:59:36.685-04:00Art Inspired by Pyongyang: A Journey in North KoreaHilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-28247436568041235762010-01-18T21:12:00.003-04:002010-01-18T21:28:29.781-04:00The Mysterious Affair at StylesAuthor: Agatha Christie (1890-1976, England)Published: 1920This is a book that's been a long time coming: the first published Agatha Christie mystery novel. I was concerned that after reading all of the Miss Marple mysteries, as well as the ones that are considered to be among Christie's best (And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, etc.), that her Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-68762841626628274062010-01-17T18:19:00.011-04:002010-02-24T18:47:51.335-04:00White Like Me: Reflection on Race From a Privileged SonAuthor: Tim Wise (1968-, United States of America)
Published: 2007
PREFACE
One might be tempted to criticize me for the fact that both the books I’ve completed on the subject of racism this year were written by white American males. One would be quite correct that this is an extremely narrow and even perhaps counterproductive way of investigating contemporary racial issues. However, one would Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-15710259874638080482010-01-15T20:18:00.003-04:002010-02-24T18:48:10.528-04:00Pyongyang: A Journey in North KoreaAuthor: Guy Delisle (1966-, Canada)
Published: 2003
Last year I gave a big push to try to get into graphic novels. They're an art form I had completely skipped over until a few things happened at once. First, that some interesting films started to be released based on self-contained graphic novels, particularly the works of Alan Moore (I'm looking at you, V for Vendetta) and some films that Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-22652408504901315892010-01-15T18:49:00.002-04:002010-01-15T18:50:04.383-04:00Art Inspired by Brown Girl in the RingHilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-82611841998359023762010-01-12T23:29:00.003-04:002010-01-15T21:59:32.588-04:00Brown Girl in the RingAuthor: Nalo Hopkinson (1960-, Jamaica/Canada)Published: 1998Alright, before I get started, I just need to say this:YAY! New author! I like her a lot! I will read more things by her and I am glad I found her!Okay, Hopkinson is the first in a real attempt by me to read people who are not white males. Now I know that lots of people will say the predictable things like "instituting quotas is Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-43469158265447563642010-01-08T19:57:00.003-04:002010-01-15T18:50:36.918-04:00Art Inspired by Black Like MeHilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-45203583256515949222010-01-08T17:10:00.010-04:002010-01-17T14:43:26.494-04:00Black Like MeAuthor: John Howard Griffin (1920-1980, United States of America)Published: 1961For as long as I can remember I have had an interest in Social Justice. Francophobic behaviour in the village where I lived mystified me at the age of 5, and at 10 my parents sent me off to French Immersion (I do not remember whether it was at my request, or whether I agreed at their suggestion, but I was fully on Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-20732413328398311752010-01-03T21:55:00.006-04:002010-01-08T20:01:39.232-04:00Art Inspired by The Sword in the StoneThe second I read the line "EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY" in T.H. White's The Sword in the Stone, I woke up Desire to read it to him. He has now made me the poster of my dreams!!Hilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076022834276645945.post-4531800852157689902010-01-03T11:50:00.008-04:002010-02-07T16:29:32.167-04:00The Sword in the StoneAuthor: T.H. White (1906-1964, England)
Published: Originally in 1939, but the revised edition that I read a copy of was published in 1958, with two new chapters reflective of the troubles the world had gotten into in the interim.
I believe this book was my father's, but I could be mistaken. At the very least, it was he who recommended it to me, years ago when I was much smaller, and likely hadHilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330123285908855682noreply@blogger.com0