December 2009
14 posts
“And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn’t feel other things, like the...”
– The Golden Compass (via scatteredwords)
The Original of Laura
(Dying is Fun)
by Vladimir Nabokov
Knopf,
278 pages, $42
If there is one word, one theme, that runs through all of Vladimir Nabokov’s work, it isn’t “beauty” or “sublimity” or “bliss” or any of the other possible candidates that might be offered up by his most ardent admirers (and almost all of his admirers are ardent).
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Canadian olympic men's hockey team announced
I am a huge hockey fan and I love the Olympics. So here is the line up for our men’s hockey team who is going to shoot for gold. Go Canada Go!!
Forwards
Patrice Bergeron, L’Ancienne-Lorette, Que. (Boston Bruins)
Sidney Crosby, Cole Harbour, N.S. (Pittsburgh Penguins) Alternate captain
Ryan Getzlaf, Regina, Sask. (Anaheim Ducks)
Dany Heatley, Calgary, Alta. (San Jose Sharks)
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“This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way...”
– T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men” (via literateandstylish)
Fantastic quotation. I read this with my grade twelve class and it was inspiring to hear the insightful things they had to say about this.
Debt-Free Forever By Gail Vaz-Oxlade
I have jumped back into my budget band wagon. I am determined to be debt free(master card, student line of credit, and osap) in three years. Gail Vaz-Oxlade is the host of Till Debt do us Part and my financial idol. So I am reading Gail’s new book and highly recommend it to anyone looking to get their finances in order. Her ideas are straight forward and doable.
I have some huge goals...
The write stuff editing →
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Review of Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese
I am taking part in a London wide book club that is called London Reads. If anyone is in the area they should check if out. It is going on in the months of January, February and March. They have a face book page and website to find out details. The first book of London Reads is Ragged Company. To be brief this is a story about four homeless people who take refuge from the cold in a movie theater...
Recently bought....
Just got back from Chapters basically my weak spot.
I got a gift card for Christmas from my future brother and sister in law so I put it to good use.
I bought A S Byatt The Children’s Book. It was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and is described as “A panoramic novel of family secrets - set against the backdrop of a bohemian world on the brink of the Great War - about predators...
