Finale

Dear Readers,

Technically today is the last day of my honors blog. From here on out this may continue or they may not but chances are it will be far less frequent and far less focused. My apologies. However I would like to say that this has been an excellent endeavor. I've realized a lot of things about writing, and even though I have not suddenly become a better writer, I know that the things I have discovered will equip me to sometime in the future, most likely gradually and many years down the road, improve upon my writing.

The Artist

I was planning on writing about Jane Eyre or Gulliver's Travels today, as those two stories are next on the docket in my literature classes, but since I've not finished reading either of them yet, I'll hold off. Not without other intentions though, as today in class we read a short story I enjoyed quite a bit: "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros.

Modest: moderate, adequate, acceptable

Today I read Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal." If you haven't read it I suggest you do. It is quite satirical/ironic/comically immodest. Reading it without knowing those things would be terribly, terribly horrific. Like watching movies like Hot Fuzz without the ability to realize how intentionally fake the blood is suppose to be. 

Happy Wednesday!

The Goodreads Choice Awards are IN!

My "To-Read" list just got a little bit longer.

So many books, so little time:

 

To see them for yourself just click!

Book People Unite

I was planning to talk about John Milton's Paradise Lost (which we've been reading the past few weeks in Brit Lit). However since I have nothing too new to say about it (He was another one of the authors who enjoyed combining science, mythology, and religion within his writing, and did a swell job as far as I can tell), I'll summarize what I would have said: 

He does a fabulous job of taking the Biblical account of the time surrounding the fall (the story of Adam & Eve eating the forbidden fruit) and making it more storylike. He takes very 2D people and turns them into 3D characters. Adam and Eve are not really mentioned a whole lot throughout the Bible so not much is known, which is ok. But for the sake of literary entertainment and poetic expression Milton gives them motives and emotions and dialogue. Its nice, and even though fictional, inspired a lot of questions (for me any way) about what we ARE told about Adam and Eve in the Bible. Quite, quite intriguing. 

Now that I just vomited that topic I'd like to address the main focal point of this post. I stumbled across this little gem just before coming here to post: