Going home means I always wind up rereading some book I loved when I was younger. I remember picking up The Mill on the Floss the summer we moved to Long Island. I was about to enter 7th grade, knew nobody in town, except for the 6 year-old boy who lived with his grandparents next [...]
George Eliot, 1860
August 3rd, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: Books · George Eliot · Literature · Long Island · Remembered · Siblings · The Mill on the Floss
All Things Forgotten, Vol 2: Top Secret
June 20th, 2008 No Comments
As with all things forgotten, let’s start with what I remember.
We moved to the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio when I was about to enter 2nd grade. I spent that first year at Maple Dale Elementary. The next year, we moved across the street to a different townhouse complex and managed to cross a township line. [...]
Tags: America · Books · Brian Greene · Cincinnati · Education · Forgotten · John Reynolds Gardiner · Libraries · Mr. Vorwald · Papa · Science · Top Secret
Those Who Can’t Write, Blog.
June 12th, 2008 1 Comment
By now, I’ve made myself hate the short story I began this past semester. It seems a good enough reason as any to return to my real vocation: reading.
Books I’ve Read Since Spring Semester ‘08 Came to Its Unpropitious Close:
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
Location: Coach Bus, Spain (Madrid, Toledo, Granada)
Dates: May 24 - May 28
Comments: I [...]
Tags: Anne Carson · Autobiography of Red · Books · Brideshead Revisited · Chip Kidd · East of Eden · Evelyn Waugh · John Steinbeck · The Cheese Monkeys