My all-time favorite college course was my class on Joyce. I have mentioned it several times here, mainly around Bloomsday. So, when Jill from Fizzy Thoughts announced a Ulysses read-a-long, how could I not jump on the bandwagon? Beginning today, 12 of us brave souls embark on a 6 week tour of Ulysses. The plan [...]
There are religious holidays, there are state holidays, and there are personal holidays. Today is a literary holiday, Bloomsday! It celebrates the anniversary of day that Leopold Bloom traveled through Dublin as chronicled in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Incidentally, June 16th is also the anniversary of James Joyce’s first date with his future wife, Nora. Reading [...]
I found this post that Miss Holly wrote in response to Cheryl’s. I just had to jump on in… If your book collection were on fire and you could only save three books from burning, which three would you save and why? While I’m answering this, I’m going to assume that I’ve already rescued my [...]
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin Earlier this year Devourer of Books posted about the Penguin Books giveaway and I quickly joined for my chance to get a free book. When I found out that the Penguin Classic book assigned to me was Melmoth the Wanderer, I had flashbacks to Junior Year Honors English [...]
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl Just 75 pages into Special Topics in Calamity Physics, I knew that I was going to enjoy it. When what I was reading spoke to me personally in conjunction with an outside conversation I had just moments before reading it, I knew that I was reading something [...]
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