Category Archives: LITERATURE

LITERATURE: Another Book List

Posted on January 9, 2007 by Susan

Via Conversational Reading, a point to Darby at thumb drives and oven clocks where there’s a not-to-be missed list of "75 Books I Failed to Read in 2006." It’s a hilarious read and a clever twist on the subject. Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: On The Road – Layers

Posted on January 6, 2007 by susan

I’m going to try this again because as I read on, I find a very complex system unfolding and if typepad swallows this entry, I’m making a backup this time. Metafiction, a writer writing about a writer.  Memoir, usually truth … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Shipping Methods & Costs

Posted on January 5, 2007 by Susan

I’ve got to say that I’m not real happy so far with my Powell’s purchases.  Choosing Economy shipping was a BIG mistake; one shipment’s been sitting at their local post office for five days.  I believe because of the amount … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The Pleasure of the Text – A Tough Read

Posted on January 4, 2007 by susan

I’ve plowed through about a third of this, and now and again a tad of it makes sense.  It’s slow going, stopping to check definitions which lead to a whole new theory that needs understanding before I can go back … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE> : On The Road – Of Poetry and Freedom

Posted on January 2, 2007 by susan

There’s something to be said about Kerouac’s prose, it’s concise and sparse but when he allows it to happen, it’s nice stuff: In the empty Huston streets of four o’clock in the morning a motorcycle kid suddenly roared through, all … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Me and the UPS Man

Posted on January 2, 2007 by Susan

Well of course the mail service is suspended today in honor of President Gerald Ford, but the faithful UPS man delivereth. Since I’m too embarrassed to post on what I’ve recently ordered I’m just sort of sneaking them at the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: On The Road – Reality

Posted on January 1, 2007 by susan

I’m not overwhelmed by the prose, and what Kerouac is journaling (I understand it’s based upon his own experiences) about really may have lost some of its impact through the decades of change that apparently this novel helped get started. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: How to Start a New Year

Posted on December 30, 2006 by Susan

My end-of-year habit to clean things up, get things done, tie up loose ends, put the lid on, etc., has made for a very promising first week of the new year.  I should be getting in about fifty to sixty … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Acquisitions

Posted on December 27, 2006 by Susan

On order, fifty books.  Most from Barnes & Noble, Powell, and a couple from Amazon.  Prices run anywhere from 65 cents to 10 dollars, but the average is under $5.00. I do this after every Christmas (unless we’re hurtin’ a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Academic Approval

Posted on December 16, 2006 by Susan

Well this is kinda neat:  A high school in Los Angeles has a link to one of my postings on Hurston’s The Gilded Six Bits in their course assignment.  Guess the teachers use Google too! Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & LITERATURE: A Nice New World

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Susan

Relative to the prior post, and with the admission that it’s two in the morning here, I got to wondering why, if writers have the power to project new worlds, new species, they choose to almost always–in most sci fi … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: On The Road – The Times, They Ain’t Changed Much

Posted on December 9, 2006 by susan

So our narrator Sal, curious and bit jealous of the closeness between his friends Dean and Carlos, listens in on one of their special late night meetings of the minds: They started in again. ‘When you borrowed that nickel to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: On The Road – Style

Posted on December 7, 2006 by susan

I keep waiting for something to grab me in my reading, but seem instead to be just bopping along the road with Kerouac’s Sal Paradise.  The truck ride was fun, and I saw some depth developing to the characters: Meanwhile … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Excuses

Posted on December 5, 2006 by Susan

Haven’t been reading as religiously as usual.  New Media playing..er, I mean working…and the Christmas rush with framing in the shop have put some serious dents in my scheduled relaxing reading time.  Also, I suppose, the hibernation syndrome. Every year … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: And Blogging about It

Posted on December 3, 2006 by Susan

There’s been rumblings against amateur literary reviews such as my own I suppose, by the more professional, usually affiliated with a news media or official lit review organization.  So do we serve a purpose? We don’t have to.  Honest, all … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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