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A Little Nuts about Podcasts, Part 1 14 Jul 2012 | 02:16 am
I have to admit that the bulk of the time and attention I used to devote to books have lately been encroached by podcasts. It’s not necessarily a new medium–for years I’ve listened to staples such as ...
Book 2, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 7 Jul 2012 | 07:31 pm
It’s been a long time, blog. The longer one puts off a task, I found, the easier it is to avoid it altogether. Even though I still continued to read, I succumbed to work-related stress and my own lazi...
Book 1, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 22 Mar 2012 | 04:09 am
Well, here is the Mt. Everest of my bogus enterprise, the most daunting of all the doorstopper books I’ve planned to read in 2012. I know that I’ve also endeavored to read Tale of Genji and Don Quixot...
Naermyth by Karen Francisco 18 Mar 2012 | 11:49 pm
It’s a little weird, writing this post months after having read the book and having given my copy away, but my personal need to chronicle my reading life is compelling me, so here we go. Naermyth by ...
Literary Blog Hop: March 8-11 – Reading Style, etc. 10 Mar 2012 | 11:52 am
Today is my birthday so I guess this is as good a time as any to try something new and participate in the Literary Blog Hop over at The Blue Bookcase. I’ve been following this particular Blog Hop for ...
Finishing Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 9 Mar 2012 | 05:45 am
1st Diary Entry – Midnight’s Children 2nd Diary Entry – Midnight’s Children 3rd Diary Entry – Midnight’s Children I was not prepared for the way this book ends. There has been too much foreshadowin...
End of Part 2 – Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 5 Mar 2012 | 02:35 am
(Credits: The quote is from Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. The poster is by Brett Thurman on Behance. Click for better image resolution) 1st Diary Entry – Midnight’s Children 2nd Diary Entry ...
300 Pages into Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 24 Feb 2012 | 07:46 am
Photo from Vanity Fair 1st Diary Entry – Midnight’s Children Despite the inclusion of characters who live in slums and wander the streets to make money, Salman Rushdie is chiefly chronicling the liv...
The First 100 Pages – Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 16 Feb 2012 | 05:09 am
I have tried reading Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children three years ago and stopped within the first 200 pages of it. Although I have read The Moor’s Last Sigh beforehand, I still found myself confo...
The Nymph of MTV by Angelo Suarez 10 Feb 2012 | 03:47 am
Angelo Suarez was 19 when The Nymph of MTV first came out, the product of a young poet already comfortable with wordplay and surreality and the enviable assurance that what he has to say will be heard...
