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RC2015 – December: Between the World and Me
My advice for reading this novel: Be consumed. Read it all at once. Don’t let the world, your prejudices, other tasks get in the way – if only for the time you read the pages – of being wholly consumed by this subject, this letter, and the profound words of Ta-Nehisi Coates. Recently I saw a comment under a social media posting from a local news station that read: “Could you refrain from posting about war, death, and terror until after the holiday season? It would be nice to just enjoy positive stories this time of year.” The ability to just push aside the negativity of the world in honor…
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RC2015 – December Intro
Happy December 1st! I’ve said it a thousand times, but I’ll say it again: I cannot believe another month has passed. This new one is bigger than the rest of course, because it’s the last of 2015. Yikes. I hope you got the chance to read my November Reading Challenge Wrap-Up, and if you didn’t that’s okay, it’s not a prerequisite to December’s. I am scaling back to one book this month, because I’m anticipating heavier subject matter that I want to take more time to get through, and with the holidays in full force I will be busier than usual. For this month, I am reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the…
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RC2015 – November II: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
I had hoped not to be so terrible with posting during the last few days, but alas, Thanksgiving festivities kept me from my blog duties. Thankfully a new month is starting tomorrow, which means time will be spent scheduling, goal making, and organizing within the next few days. For now, here is the wrap-up of my November Reading Challenge. Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a mystery written by fifteen year old Christopher, who, although not specifically noted in the text, has Asperger’s Syndrome. The events within the pages made it hard to put the novel down, although by the conclusion I was left feeling shortchanged, or perhaps “grasping…
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RC2015 – November I: Why Not Me?
Good afternoon readers. Yes, I have completed the first half of my November Reading Challenge, and I am quite happy about it. I sipped on a Cappuccino while I lazily sat reading this morning as I finished Why Not Me?, and no, not a Cappuccino from a quaint, cozy coffee shop; a delicious powdered mix spooned into a mug of hot water I heated in a kettle on my stove. It was bliss. This book was a little different than Mindy Kaling’s first, and rightfully so I suppose since she’s not caught in a time warp where she just writes the same life stories over and over again. It focuses more on…
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RC2015 – November Intro
Good morning and happy Sunday! Also, happy Daylight Saving Time and first day of NaNoWriMo, NaBloPoMo, and all the other November Writing Challenges. I did have to manually set back one wall clock as well as the stove clock and my coffee maker clock, but of course my gadgets did it automatically. Oh, I need to remember to turn back my wristwatch… I spent the last couple of days (read: weeks) brainstorming NaNoWriMo ideas, and among doing laundry, cleaning my apartment, and keeping track of my Fantasy Football team today, I am expecting to pump out a wonderful array of words. Third paragraph in and I’m finally getting down to the…
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Reading Challenge 2015 – October: Yes Please
Happy Saturday, happy Halloween, and happy last day of October! This post is to address the last occasion listed above, and that is the last day of October, and more specifically, the end to October’s Reading Challenge. As a true procrastinator, I finished Yes Please¹ just an hour or so ago, but I promise that had more to do with my phobia of finishing books and less about the timeline because honestly, a month to finish a book is really a generous amount of time. And yes, it’s a true phobia. But that’s for another post as well, and maybe for that one I’ll try to find the “scientific” name…
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