Reading, Writing, & Raptures

Okay, now I can post my 2011 Fifty Books Challenge list! Fiction   YA/Juvenile     Nonfiction   Memoir Collections (short stories...

I've just made my way through Clans and Families of Ireland: The Heritage and Heraldry of Irish Clans and Families by John Grenham, whi...

Although to have been born, I know, is an offence, and with just cause I bear the rigours of your punishment: Since to be born is man's ...

I was feeling very proud of myself for noticing allusions to Faust in Conrad's Heart of Darkness when I realized I'd never actuall...

Happy Thanks -giving! I am thankful to be over the flu and back online. But while I was sick I managed to finish some reading, including Bec...

Huzzah! for Shakespeare. I just finished King Lear (which, strangely enough, I never read in my college Shakespeare class). This may be my ...