Margaret H. posted an article on Literary Menagerie - Apr 26, 2009, 7:00 am
Welcome to the April 26, 2009 edition of book review blog carnival! Check out posts from some wonderful bloggers and see what they've been reading lately! John E. Riutta presents Chronicle of a Life Well Told posted at Born Again Bird Watcher: Even if only the eleventh chapter of Birdwatcher: The...
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Margaret H. posted an article on Literary Menagerie - Mar 23, 2009, 2:00 am
"This game of ours always began the same. Dad would draw a picture of Ziggy happily strolling along, unaware of some horrible misfortune about to befall him. Ziggy might be zooming off a cliff, walking unknowingly into an open manhole, or oblivious to a meteor plummeting head-on his way. After Ziggy...
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Margaret H. posted an article on Literary Menagerie - Mar 16, 2009, 2:00 am
Google is a marvelous thing--but a few recent visitors haven't found what they were looking for... I can help with that! Behold, your (common) google queries answered! "what's the story of macbeth about" Witches chant, cackle and stir up trouble with prophecies. They tell Macbeth he's going to be...
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Margaret H. posted an article on Literary Menagerie - Mar 14, 2009, 2:00 am
Welcome to Surfing Saturdays! Each Saturday morning, I'll list any links of interest I came across during the past week of surfing and give an update on my reading progress. Play along with me! Leave your own links, or a link to your own post, in the comments! So, where have I been this week? Check...
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Margaret H. posted an article on Literary Menagerie - Mar 13, 2009, 2:00 am
I saw this at Debbie's World the other day and decided to copy her idea. I thought about using the Guardian list before, but 1,000 books seemed a little extensive (and unfair to anyone who reads this in a feed), so we're going with the College Board's 101 Books College Bound Students Should Read. (I...
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Margaret H. posted an article on Literary Menagerie - Mar 12, 2009, 2:00 am
I went to Cotillion Training School for the same reason my friends went: my mother wanted me to. This was important to her, the same way it was important to have a picture of her great-great-grandfather dressed in Confederate gray over the sideboard and for us not to be seen in Dad's truck when we...
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Margaret H. posted an article on Literary Menagerie - Mar 11, 2009, 2:00 am
I saw this cover illustration and instantly wanted to read the book. It's so simple and elegant--now I'm going to have to go scrounge up a copy to read, or to frame... Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie From amazon.com: Sweeping in scope and mesmerizing in its evocation of time a...
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Margaret H. posted an article on Literary Menagerie - Mar 10, 2009, 2:48 am
Barbie turned 50 this week. (She looks good for her age, doesn't she?) As I was reading a bit about Barbie's history I got to thinking how she hasn't really changed much, in 50 years. When she appeared, in 1959, it was to a storm of controversy over her sexuality, but today you don't hear that so ...
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Margaret H. posted an article on Literary Menagerie - Mar 9, 2009, 6:25 pm
Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy. Good is Heaven. Evil ...
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Margaret H. posted an article on Literary Menagerie - Mar 8, 2009, 11:55 pm
"High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour. They were protected from the thin, cold air by the pressurized cabins of two Boeing 707s, and from the risk of collision by the pruden...
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