November 2011
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August 2011
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“I loooove fall colors. I looooove that all the fall stuff is being sold now!!!...”
June 2011
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April 2011
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Neverland isn't on a star. It isn't located by a...
“Second to the right, and straight on till morning. That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland”
Opening line of Chapter 4, The Flight, of J. M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan.”
Neverland is actually an island on Earth; days, nights and oceans away somewhere.
February 2011
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“Horses and dolphins and unicorns — these are all borderland creatures; gateway...”
– Laurel Braitman
From the NPR report “Why Do Girls Love Horses, Unicorns And Dolphins?”
Why Do Girls Love Horses, Unicorns And Dolphins?
NPR has a great answer!
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=133600424&m=133629772
November 2010
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October 2010
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MY TOP 3 FAVORITE CHICANA/O CHILDREN'S/ADOLESCENT...
If you are ever interested in reading Chicana/o lit., I suggest you begin here. These are the most compelling stories I have ever read about the struggle of the Mexican immigrant. And just because its kid’s lit, you shouldn’t be put off by it. I would rather read these books over and over than read some of the long-winded and ill-written novelizations of the life of immigrants,...
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September 2010
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New Dahl Book Contains Missing Chapter of 'Charlie...
AHHH!!! It finally got published?! I need this now! D:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/44075-new-dahl-book-contains-missing-chapter-of-charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-.html
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Homework
This semester, I decided to expand my horizons and take a poetry/prose seminar where I will get to do something other than write essays and read literary theory. This is my homework for the week:
What I want you to do is to read, read and write, write! Take advantage of the long week off and enjoy the two prose poem anthologies and single author volumes and do some free-writes inspired by the...
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August 2010
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July 2010
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The Giving Tree
Once there was a tree and she loved a little boy. And every day the boy would come and he would gather her leaves and make them into crowns and play king of the forest. He would climb up her trunk and swing from her branches and eat apples. And they would play hide-and-go-seek. ...
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June 2010
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May 2010
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Hmmm... →
The BBC Believes Most People Will Have Read Only 6 of the 100
01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - 02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - (skimmed) 03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - 04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - (skimmed) 05 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - 06 The Bible - (the “important” parts) 07 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - 08 Nineteen Eighty Four...
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WatchA few months ago, I had to read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for class. I asked myself “why hasn’t a steampunk movie about this been made?” This is a good start!
Almost insignificant spoiler:
They should have kept true to the Oz books and kept the silver shoes at the end. I’m just sayin’.
thedailywhat:
Lights Out: Atlanta-based boutique film company Whitestone...