#38 - Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens
Finished 7/26/07
Rating: 2/5
Total Pages: 3558 (Palm Pilot)
Reason for Reading: 18th/19th Century Novel
REVIEW: Certainly my least favourite Dickens novel. I had great difficulty forcing myself to continue with this, but it's DICKENS. Aren't we supposed to love Dickens? I did finish it, just because I was determined to find out how it turned out in the end, but most of the book put me to sleep. I'm glad to be able to move on to something new.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. --Edgar Allan Poe
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- A crazy Canadian gal lost in the wilds of suburban London.... trying to navigate my way through an undergrad degree in Social Anthropology.... living my life upside down....
words i love
Holding You
You opened the door and walked inside
and asked a memory of me.
It was so good and my mind quickly encircled you,
embraced you, held you.
Your words, your questions, your thoughts,
I hold you here in my mind.
You opened a window and your fresh air
blew inside my heart.
You climbed inside and it skipped a beat,
then raced so fast I couldn't breathe.
Your touch, your taste, your love,
I hold you here within my heart.
You opened a whole new world for me
and showed me pleasures I'd never known.
You draped your ribbons around me
and decorated my life.
Your eyes, your smile, your care,
I hold you here in my soul.-- Ampoule
R.I.P. Challenge
My Peril Pool:
#1 - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (Clarke)
#2 - The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Dahlquist)
#3 - Shattered (Koontz)
#4 - The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (Dickens/Collins)
#5 - A selection of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe
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Newbery Challenge
- #1 - The Cat Who Went to Heaven (Coatsworth), 1931 *****
- #2 - Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (Latham), 1956 *****
- #3 - Call It Courage (Sperry), 1941 *****
- #4 - Out of the Dust (Hesse), 1998
- #5 - The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (Lofting), 1923
- #6 - Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices (Fleischman), 1989
Anthrospeak
Ancient Tablet Vouches for Biblical King
This small clay tablet from the British Museum's collection records a payment by a Babylonian officer named Nebo-Sarsekim. Nebo-Sarsekim is described on the tablet as being Nebuchadnezzar's "chief eunuch." In Chapter 39 of the Book of Jeremiah, this individual is described as being with King Nebuchadnezzar II at the siege of Jerusalem in the year 587 B.C. Click here to anthrospeak your brain.
This small clay tablet from the British Museum's collection records a payment by a Babylonian officer named Nebo-Sarsekim. Nebo-Sarsekim is described on the tablet as being Nebuchadnezzar's "chief eunuch." In Chapter 39 of the Book of Jeremiah, this individual is described as being with King Nebuchadnezzar II at the siege of Jerusalem in the year 587 B.C. Click here to anthrospeak your brain.
all Books Read so far this year (click on the title for my review)
- 45. To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee) *****
- 44. Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe (Moore) ***
- 43. Midnight's Children (Rushdie) ****
- 42. Call It Courage (Sperry) *****
- 41. Norwegian Wood (Murakami) *****
- 40. Arthur & George (Barnes) *****
- 39. The Immaculate Conception (Soucy) ***
- 38. Little Dorrit (Dickens) **
- 37. Brighton Rock (Greene) *****
- 36. Flaubert's Parrot (Barnes) ***
- 35. The Kingdom by the Sea (Theroux) ****
- 34. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (Latham) *****
- 33. The Book of Dreams (Vance) ****
- 32. Women with Men (Ford) *****
- 31. The Monk (Lewis) ****
- 30. The Cat Who Went to Heaven (Coatsworth) *****
- 29. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (Vassanji) ****
- 28. The Face (Vance) ***
- 27. The Palace of Love (Vance) ***
- 26. The New York Trilogy (Auster) *****
- 25. My Sister's Keeper (Picoult) ***
- 24. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde) *****
- 23. Fairy Tale (Ellis) *****
- 22. The Kite Runner (Hosseini) ****
- 21. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Tsing)
- 20. The Ice Queen (Hoffman) ****
- 19. Natasha & Other Stories (Bezmozgis) ***
- 18. Anansi Boys (Gaiman) ****
- 17. Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys) ****
- 16. Jane Eyre (Bronte) *****
- 15. Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling) ***
- 14. The Golden Compass (Pullman) ****
- 13. Dark Age Ahead (Jacobs) ***
- 12. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) *****
- 11. Moral Disorder (Atwood) *****
- 10. Dead Run (Tracy) ***
- 9. The Corn King & the Spring Queen (Mitchison) **
- 8. Collected Poems 1909-1962 (Eliot)
- 7. The Killing Machine (Vance) ****
- 6. Of Wolves & Men (Lopez) ***
- 5. Live Bait (Tracy) ****
- 4. North & South (Gaskell) ***
- 3. Children of My Heart (Roy) ****
- 2. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (Rand) ***
- 1. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (Lam) ****
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