December 2009
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A Visit from Saint Nicholas in the Ernest...
This story originally appeared in The New Yorker, December 24, 1927.
It was the night before Christmas. The house was very quiet. No creatures were stirring in the house. There weren’t even any mice stirring. The stockings had been hung carefully by the chimney. The children hoped that Saint Nicholas would come and fill them.
The children were in their beds. Their beds were in the room next to...
Books of 2009
I have had the pleasure of reading some pretty amazing books this year. There were lots of Pulitzer winners (5) and a bunch of Sci-Fi/Fantasy, which really surprised me when I looked over the list (10).
For some of my new followers, I have linked my little reviews below if you are interested. There were 2 books that stood out amongst all the others to me as being the absolute best, but really,...
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Otis Redding - These arms of...
“You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail.”
- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
“Yossarian sidled up drunkenly to Colonel Korn at the officers’ club one night to kid with him about the new Lepage gun that the Germans had moved in. ‘What Lepage gun?’ colonel Korn inquired with curiosity. ‘The new three hundred and forty four millimeter Lepage glue gun,’ Yossarian...
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“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.”
- Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the rest of the people in the world, the theory suggests, are extras) and what is more, they all know each other. And it’s true, or true as far as it goes. In reality the world is made of...
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