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Which fairy tale character do you think you are most like and why?

Tonight, I feel most like the spoiled, bad-tempered princess in "The Frog Prince." In case you're unfamiliar with the original, the kiss was added in later. In earlier versions, the princess (totally without provocation…
Stolen from Demetrios_of_Phaleron

1) Look at the list and bold those we have read. 2) Italicize those we intend to read. 3) Underline the books we LOVE 4) Reprint this list in our own blogs Average adult has read 6…1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen. (…
Outsnobbed

Yesterday I started to read Joseph Epstein's Snobbery. I suffer from a certain amount of snobbery, particularly in the areas of book snobbery, food snobbery, sensualism snobbery, and California snobbery, and was intrigu…
The Proust Questionnaire

As a literature major, I'm embarrassed to admit that almost everything I know about Proust I learned from Little Miss Sunshine. Ahem. Anyway, I don't usually partake of such things, but I've decided to answer a questio…
Literary Anguish

In the past two days, I have read two books with highly unsatisfactory endings.Let me first point out that I do not approve of unmitigatedly happy endings. I don't read straight romances (which include, and provoke, two…
I feel boring

I'm not having a particularly boring week, but I haven't been inspired to blog because nothing I've thought of writing has seemed all that interesting, even to me, and I'm easily amused.Things I considered blogging about…
Four days without internet and other adventures

We all schlepped ourselves over to my grandmother's unoccupied summer house for a couple days while deadly fumes polished off all the termites, all the silverfish, and one unfortunate African violet that was forgotten ab…
Does your Internet persona differ much from you in real life? Why or why not?

Come on, 'real life'? That is so undergrad. A brief examination of the question posited reveals the problematic and unacknowledged assumptions on which it is based. What is 'real'? Why place it into an absolute oppos…
Inspired by Garrison Keillor

I came across a vignette of his on sneezing the other day. It's quite a nice little piece of defamiliarisation that reminds me a bit of Calvino and Marquez and some of the other Latin American writers (Cortazar? Unamuno…