Archive: Classics category
To offset today's other post, here's something that's less of a hot potato. :) As I get ready to graduate, I want to keep learning, to broaden my perspective across the board, and to deepen it at the points that most interest me. Now, if I just read ...
In the spirit of my post a few days ago and as a variation on a theme by Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'd like to ask y'all what your favorite books are. You can list as many or as few books as you want. If you want to ...
On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And through the field the road run by
To many-tower'd Camelot;
And up and down the people go,
Gazing where the lilies blow
Round an island there below,
The island of Shalott.
I've decided that my dead time ...
Lately I've started reading Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, which I'm liking a lot, A Tale of Two Cities (which I've never read, ashamed though I am to admit it -- and I'm liking it a lot as well), and as of this morning I've started Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography. And I'm ...
You know it's been cold when you think 23 degrees is warm. :) It has been warmer lately, especially during the day, and it's lovely. Soon I'll be able to downgrade from my heavy winter coat back to my usual jacket, and then eventually I won't need even ...
I decided that instead of doing homework tonight, I would spend a few delicious hours reading -- something I haven't been able to do as much of since school started. And so I spent an hour or so with Anne Elliott in Persuasion, marvelling at the shallowness of Sir ...
Out of curiosity, how many of you have read entire books online? (Etexts, eBooks, whatever you want to call them.) Where? Project Gutenberg? Elsewhere? Did you read them in your web browser, or in a separate etext-reading app, or on a handheld device of some ...
I just remembered that I hadn't posted today, so here I am. (Not that it really would have been that great a loss if I'd waited till tomorrow -- it's not like forgetting to brush one's teeth or to shower -- but it's nice to have a daily record ...
As noted over at Lifehack.org, there's a cool web app called DailyLit which breaks eBooks up into bite-sized chunks (each readable in five minutes or so) and sends them to you via e-mail however often you'd like.
It's pretty easy and needs no explanation really. All you do ...
Remember how I said I'd post about Elder Douglas L. Callister's devotional address? The rebroadcast ended an hour ago (which is how long I've been working on this post :)), and here's my response:
First, the underlying premise behind all of his remarks is that our heavenly home and our ...
