BOOK CLUB CLASSICS!

 
Photo by Gallebee
You may have noticed a little green box on the front of my site that says “Site Meter.”  This wonderful little program allows me to track how many visitors my site receives, from what location, and why.  Most days I have about 40 visitors, who spend about 4 minutes, from such diverse places as Ireland, Finland, the [...]

Just a quick post to remind all my fellow Jane Austen’s afficiandos to watch Persuasion on PBS tomorrow!!   To peak your interest, here are two posts from Book Club Girl: Jane, Jane, Jane and Sundays with Jane and a flashback to one of my first posts.  Go Jane!

 Photo by Gallebee

 
Photo by ashley dryden
As all of my former A.P. students know, I am crazy about Emily Dickinson…  She is dark, disturbing, riddling, challenging, thought-provoking — she truly taught me how to read and to think.  So, I was thrilled to read in Critical Mass  about a evening devoted to Dickinson and Susan Howe’s My Emily Dickinson: a [...]

Still ruminating over how much of an artist’s genius is subconscious — and whether this de-values the role of the artist (or the opposite — maybe true artists should be evaluated on how willing they are to get out of their own way?)…  When researching Wuthering Heights, I found this fascinating article at  http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/wuthering/psych.html about Linda Gold’s interpretation [...]

This week I completed my latest kit, on Wuthering Heights, and three things surprised me — one, that I loved the raw power and dysfunction this time around (probably my third reading?) just as much as I did the first time.   Second, last year a Guardian.uk poll ranked Wuthering Heights higher than Pride and Prejudice for best-loved [...]