Does this ever happen to you? You’re reading a book and it is holding your interest, but nothing too mind shattering. Until you get deeper into it and you feel something in yourself slowly changing. Call it a metamorphosis. Or a door opening. Or a blooming in a hitherto unfruitful garden in the mind. ImagineContinue reading “Post-Book Completion Grieving: A Review of Grossman’s The Magician King”
Monthly Archives: December 2011
A Trio of Books for Youth
Due to the fact that it takes me a couple of weeks to put together the behemoth monthly book posts, I have decided to break it up a little. Since my last post, I’ve read three good books for youth which, conveniently enough, provide me with a modicum of a theme for my first assay.Continue reading “A Trio of Books for Youth”
Manage your Expectations Shmexpectations
We have been avidly going through the TV series Breaking Bad these days, a show about an overqualified, and underpaid high school chem teacher who turns to making crystal meth in order to provide for his family when he is dead. One of the main characters gets shot and affects the nerves in his legs.Continue reading “Manage your Expectations Shmexpectations”
November in Books
Books read Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel I finished it! It only took me 8 months, but I completed this brick of a book. You must be wondering why it took me so long. Why did I not put it down when I couldn’t get into it? Was it that horrible? And am I suchContinue reading “November in Books”
Lina Branter 