All Consuming : emchik

Consumed "Ulysses"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:50:21 GMT

Ulysses

by James Joyce

WORTH IT!

Consumed "High School Musical 3"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:00:13 GMT

High School Musical 3

by Kenny Ortega

WORTH IT!

Consumed "Twilight"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:59:35 GMT

Twilight

by Catherine Hardwicke

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Consumed "Breaking Dawn"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:58:51 GMT

Breaking Dawn

by Stephenie Meyer

WORTH IT!

Consumed "Eclipse"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:57:41 GMT

Eclipse

by Stephenie Meyer

WORTH IT!

Consumed "New Moon (The Twilight Saga)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:56:38 GMT

New Moon (The Twilight Saga)

by Stephenie Meyer

WORTH IT!

Consumed "Twilight"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:55:55 GMT

Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer

WORTH IT!

Consumed "The Pleasures of Exile (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:07:47 GMT

The Pleasures of Exile (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

by George Lamming

WORTH IT!

Consumed "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:07:28 GMT

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread

by Kate Dicamillo

WORTH IT!

Consumed "The Return of the Native"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:36:05 GMT

The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy

WORTH IT!

Consumed "Superbad (Unrated Widescreen Edition)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:18:35 GMT

Superbad (Unrated Widescreen Edition)

NOT WORTH IT!

Consumed "Penelope"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:33:12 GMT

Penelope

by Mark Palansky

WORTH IT!

Consumed "Bedtime Stories"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:32:54 GMT

Bedtime Stories

WORTH IT!

Consumed "Caribbean Discourse (Caraf Books)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:18:37 GMT

Caribbean Discourse (Caraf Books)

by Edouard Glissant

WORTH IT!

Consumed "Little Women (Signet Classics)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:18:27 GMT

Little Women (Signet Classics)

by Louisa May Alcott

WORTH IT!

Consumed "Mansfield Park (ITV)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:55:58 GMT

Mansfield Park (ITV)

NOT WORTH IT!

A story about "Culture and Imperialism"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:31:48 GMT

Culture and Imperialism

by Edward W. Said

It was like torture to read (but I must say better than Orientalism), but I liked it because it’s going to be so incredibly useful when I start writing my dissertation.

Why it's taking me forever to finish consuming "Culture and Anarchy (Oxford World's Classics)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:46:14 GMT

Culture and Anarchy (Oxford World's Classics)

by Matthew Arnold

I’ve been reading this for a month? I better hurry up and finish this.

A story about "Orientalism"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:36:11 GMT

Orientalism

by Edward W. Said

Now that I’ve read Orientalism (twice) I realize I had to find the right way of reading this book. And that way was not to read every single solitary word. I got too bogged down and couldn’t figure out what the heck Said was trying to say. The second time around, I looked for key points and I wrote a summary after each section. That did the trick. Not only did it help me get a better handle on what was going on, it helped me determine the shape of Said’s argument in Orientalism.

So I’m grateful to Orientalism, because I think it helped me figure out how to read the rest of the literary theory and secondary source material for my comprehensive exams.

A story about "ULYSSES"

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:06:37 GMT

ULYSSES

by James Joyce

Four chapters down and lots more to go. I’ve gotten past the first three chapters, which are from Stephen’s perspective, and I’ve moved on to Calypso, the first chapter with Bloom. I find Bloom’s narration a bit easier to get through, because Stephen’s chapters are so esoteric in nature that I keep having to look up tons of references in my book of annotations for Ulysses (which I might add, is actually longer than Ulysses itself).

This isn’t my first time reading the novel, but this is the first time I’ll have read the chapters in order. Right now, I’m having a hard time preventing myself from skipping ahead and just reading my favorite chapters—Aeolus, Cyclops, Ithaca, and Penelope. They will be my reward for getting through the other, more difficult bits. However, I will say I find myself liking Leopold Bloom more and more with this reading. I found the Calypso chapter a more pleasant read this time around, and I hope the same will be true of the other chapters.

Simply Beautiful

nobody@allconsuming.net (emchik) — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:36:25 GMT

Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)

by James Joyce

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.