Archive for the ‘language & literature’ Category
ugh
I am in finals week hell.
I will be out of the woods when I finish the paper I am currently working on (ETA: about 5AM), but it is difficult to concentrate when I feel so racked* with guilt for having neglected my blog for so long.
Until I am able to pull myself out of the [...]
relapse
I guess I felt entitled to a little bit of indulgence, since I had taken a stab at chipping away at my stack of reading. I’ve read less than half a book and skimmed another, though: progress which definitely does not justify my purchase of two more books this afternoon. I was in Barnes & [...]
happy national grammar day!
Tuesday, March 4th is more than just Antonio Vivaldi’s 330th birthday and my half-birthday, ladies and gentlemen. It is, apparently, National Grammar Day. From the website:
“We believe language is something to be celebrated. March 4th is the perfect day to do it. It’s not only a date, it’s an imperative. So March forth on [...]
intervention follow-up
I was inspired by my self-intervention, as we might call it, and so I chose a book from my stack of untackled tomes and got cracking. I picked William T. Vollman’s The Ice-Shirt, mostly because it was on top of the stack, but also a little bit because it belongs to a genre that I [...]
somebody intervene. please.
My name is Abby, and I have a problem: I’m going broke on books I don’t have time to read.
The main problem is the fact that there are two bookstores and a library between my apartment and my school. If it were just a library, there wouldn’t be a problem - libraries are free, after [...]
