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Dec 19, 2011, 11:25 am
Dead end.
I know you must be wondering why would I start a sentence with the words dead end, does it even qualify as a sentence? Probably not, but following the rules to make my point is not what is important.
When you arrive at a dead end you must stop, as you cannot go any further. Well duh,... Comment - Like
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Oct 25, 2011, 5:44 pm
Iam currently reading Aleph by Paulo Coelho and I have already gained a personal insight and life lesson that I would like to share.
What is this business about Chinese Bamboo anyway? I know this question must be buzzing around in your mind. When I first read it in Aleph, before the explanation w... Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2011, 6:05 pm
W hat makes a good story? What makes you want to pick up a book and read from the beginning to the end. These days I find it hard to find a story that makes me want to keep reading. The type of story that makes you crazy. That type of story that makes you stay up all night even though you have work ... Comment - Like
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Oct 6, 2011, 10:52 pm
Encounter 1 (Number Crunchers)
On a classic Mac color machine my fingers are tapping away on the mouse as the wannabe Pac-Man figure, by my leading, eats up the prime numbers. Quickly I am accumulating points and ignoring the call for my attention.
“Denise!”
Did someone just call me? I think ... Comment - Like
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Oct 3, 2011, 9:58 pm
Consider yourself a Good Samaritan? You may want to think twice the next time you see a car parked on the side of the road. It may be your last stop, or so the story goes in Stephen king’s novella Mile 81.
Has this ever happened to you? You saw someone broken down at the side of the road or the h... Comment - Like
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Sep 17, 2011, 9:01 pm
Fear is a mean bastard and the only way to overcome it is to size it up, look the beast in the eye and roar louder.
Make fear run for cover.
Make fear fearful of ever entering your presence again.
Expose yourself to fear and confront it!
Stop running.
Stop hiding.
Stop avoiding.
Fear needs yo... Comment - Like
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Aug 28, 2011, 10:37 am
I wake and the black box is there greeting me, I gently caress it with a single swipe and it glows offering a numerical welcoming. Four playful taps later and I am granted access into a world that has suddenly consumed me. A connection that has me connected but disconnected from true warmth that i... Comment - Like
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Jul 23, 2011, 9:15 pm
The bathroom mirror reflects my bedroom, through it I glimpse at the clock on my night table and it reads:
8:00AM
The water is running and the tub is almost full. My knees and breast are still visible, gradually becoming buried under the water.
In the distance I hear the door shut, the exit of a ... Comment - Like
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Jun 22, 2011, 8:43 am
Pages 21-44
SUMMARY
Miles becomes smitten with Alaska and hounds Chip with a series of questions abut who she is. Later Miles meets up with some of Chip’s friends for lunch and he meets Takumi for the first time.
In the middle of the night three “shadowy figures” enter Mile’s dorm r... Comment - Like
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Jun 17, 2011, 4:07 pm
In this series of posts I will be exploring Looking For Alaska in depth, including summaries and analysis, here is part 1:
Pages 1-20
SUMMARY
Miles Halter’s mom throws him a going away party a week before he leaves for a boarding school in Birmingham, Alabama called Culver Creek Preparatory ... Comment - Like
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Jun 1, 2011, 7:00 am
Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die, don’t ask me why – Bob Marley. Bob Marley wasn’t a Buddhist, far from it, but these song lyrics capture a Buddhist truth and belief that resonates through the book Looking for Alaska, a truth that revolves around suffering and desire... Comment - Like
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May 26, 2011, 7:30 am
“My mother made me do it.”
No evidence of personal responsibility can be found in the previous sentence; rather it denotes an external control of actions and behaviours. How about,
“My family is messed up.”
Better yet,
“This is all I know, I don’t know any better.”
Are you getting... Comment - Like
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May 19, 2011, 10:30 pm
Self-publishing vs. traditional publishing has been a debate of interest for the past couple of months. Two very successful self-publishers J. A. Konrath and Amanda Hocking have sparked this debate.
J. A. Konrath on his blog reports that in April 2009 he made $607 self-publishing, in April 2010 he ... Comment - Like
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Mar 14, 2011, 10:37 am
This is a guest post from Maggie Zhang (pictured above), she is a junior in high school from New York who loves reading, writing, and photography. Her favorite writers are Chuck Palahniuk, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Safran Foer, and John Green.
In an attempt to find simplicit... Comment - Like
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Feb 27, 2011, 7:39 pm
Welcome to the real world. No thanks! Keep your welcome and shove it. I rather suffer in anguish and misery for the pursuit of my dreams and artistic expression. So goes the battle cry of youth whose insistent pursuit of their dreams is uncrushable; until met with evangelist of ‘the real world.’... Comment - Like
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Nov 10, 2010, 2:13 pm
Do you stay up all night with thoughts running through your mind wondering:
Things must change; I need to do something with my life?
Consider yourself alive. A story in progress.
Do you dreamingly go through your day directionless, only knowing the steps you will take, the minute you take them? ... Comment - Like
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Mar 3, 2010, 12:55 pm
Your significant other is very sick and will die soon of an incurable disease, that is, until you found out that a pharmacist discovered a miracle drug that can cure him/her. Consequently, you visit the pharmacist and ask for the medication but he informs you that the drug will cost $10,000, unfortu... Comment - Like
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Feb 27, 2010, 9:24 pm
What happens when wrong feels right and right feels wrong? When situations that appear to be black and white turn out gray? What do you do then? These are the decisions that Private Investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro have to grapple with in Gone, Baby, Gone (Harper Fiction). Patrick Ken... Comment - Like
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Jan 13, 2010, 4:30 pm
Canada Reads 2010; the books have been chosen…1, 2, 3, fight! Canada Reads is the fiction books Survivor for book lovers. Five celebrity panelists are selected and they defend their favourite Canadian work of fiction. After each debate a book is voted off until one book remains and is crowned the ... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 2009, 3:54 pm
For 2010 I wanted to do something slightly different. I usually do reviews or analysis of fictional books, this will remain the same. However, I occasionally come across really good biographies or non-fiction books that blow me away and I would really like to share my thoughts on these books with ... Comment - Like
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Dec 29, 2009, 8:49 am
Missed some of the book reviews that I did in 2009? Here is a quick list:
Book Review: Looking For Alaska by John Green
Book Review: Paper Towns by John Green
Book Review: Saturday by Ian McEwan
Book Review: The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
Book Review: Push by Sapphire
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Dec 22, 2009, 1:57 pm
After reading Push by Sapphire I felt like I wanted to go out and do something positive and uplifting because the novel was so intense. However, when I read Push the second time; I realized that I missed many of the hurdles and problems that Precious was able to overcome. So I started thinking about Comment - Like
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Dec 16, 2009, 5:36 pm
“My name is Claireece Precious Jones…My name mean something valuable–Precious.” She sounds like somebody who knows what they are about, knows that they are worth a lot and are proud of it. Quite the contrary though. Precious is illiterate, over 200 pounds, African-American, a welfare child, ... Comment - Like
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