It’s rare I find a book I think is truly awful. Even if there are books I don’t particularly like, I can usually find ways of appreciating certain aspects of them, or respecting the author’s position and intentions. But this book was, in actuality, absolutely terrible. It’s called The Spiritualist, and the woman responsible is [...]
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Bad Books 001: The Spiritualist
Posted in Literature on January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Why Are You My Idol, Joyce Carol Oates? Let Me Count the Ways: My Soul’s Twin on the Man I Call The Cowardly Lion
Posted in Literature, Writing & Fiction, tagged Ted Kennedy on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Joyce Carol Oates is my favorite author (see several of my previous posts), and Senator Ted Kennedy was one of my least favorite people. In fact, as an Irish girl myself I see the Kennedys as a detriment to the definition of Irish identity in America, but I digress. Here was what JCO had to [...]
I can’t find Lord Byron
Posted in Literature, tagged Lord Byron on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Which I’m sure was uttered many a time in his day. I cannot find my Lord Byron book. I’m sure there are plenty of people I could enlist if I told them I was looking for a worldly, handsome, talented, pansexual lord, but if they were to find out that I was in actuality looking [...]
