Reading Dubliners reminds me just how much I love James Joyce. I haven’t quite wrapped my head around all of the stories yet, but it’s Joyce, so it typically takes a couple of reads to really begin to get anything from it. By far, “The Dead,” was the best story in the collection. Never have I read a book with a more beautiful poignant ending: “His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”

Food for the soul that is.

Because I loved A Room With a View and Howards End so much. However, the end of the novel falls short. The last few chapters are anti-climatic and a bit on the boring side.

This book was more Grant Allen’s treatise on marriage in the late nineteenth-century than a novel. However, in the end, the novel reluctantly conforms to nineteenth-century standards of morality which leaves the ending a bit ambiguous.

Ultimately, the debate over whether this is a feminist or anti-feminist novel more intriguing than the novel itself.

I’ve never seen a Studio Ghibli film I haven’t liked, and this was no exception. The film’s art was gorgeous and the plot itself was interesting. However, Tales From Earthsea is not my favorite Ghibli film. This was mainly because the quality of the animation is not up to Ghibli’s normal par, and I didn’t find the story as engrossing as Howl’s Moving Castle or Spirited Away.

It’s really dense reading! And honestly, I’m not inclined to read it when there’s so much fiction I could be reading instead. But, it’s on one of my comps reading lists, so it must be finished…eventually.

A very engrossing novel. I put off doing everything yesterday because I got so involved in this book. And, best of all, it was really nice to read something that I really enjoyed for my comprehensive exams.

Really interesting look at Mexico, not to mention a really involving story. It also gave me a great idea for a paper! So, all in all, The Plumed Serpent, was a worthwhile read for me.

My professor took it off of my reading list—it’s not late eighteenth century enough I guess.

When I was a kid, I loved loved loved this show. I had the Jem dolls, I read the Jem books, and, of course, I watched the show religiously. And though twenty years later it seems a bit dated, it’s still super fun to watch—and relive a little bit of my childhood.

I love this show! Thanks to various sales and sweet deals at Target, I have all seven seasons. So now I’m watching the third season for the gazillionth time.