Tag Archives: literature

Why, Yes, I *Do* Judge Books By Their Covers

  By zaelyna | 19 April 2010 - 21:03 |
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Every bookworm avid reader understands the seductive power of books. Books possess an enchanting nature. Being around them fills us with an unsatisfied desire to consume more. There’s actually a self-help book for biblioholism. Entertaining though it may be, the first two chapters I’ve read thus far did little to help me overcome my addiction. It actually added fuel! Heh. Tom Raabe’s book starts with a little anecdote about how he has ‘total control’ over his book addiction. He has good reason to possess multiple copies of the same title. They’re different editions, after all. Then the unthinkable happens: he … Continue reading →

A Lesson in Analysis

  By zaelyna | 11 January 2010 - 21:03 | ,
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Four years of university, flawed. Roughly 50 courses taken, and maybe half-a-dozen of those classes proved to be advantageous to [my] expectations of a ‘higher’ education. …I feel cheated. Thankfully, my professor for American Renaissance targeted a collective problem in literary analysis. Every lecture in that early-morning period actually allowed me to grow as a writer. Rather than an endless supply of academic papers written in ‘vomit’ format (quote author, summarize points, repeats for required length), I’ve been steered back toward proper analysis. My final paper for AR contains little more than a phrase or two quoted from any of … Continue reading →