Genius Like Mine

It has occurred to me that it might be time for a new, albeit brief, posting; considering that I'm about to take Georgia by storm, and all.

We (Mike & I) are taking a long weekend to fly out to Atlanta, to meet up with my brother, and pretty much just tear up Peachtree Street and hope that in the process, we aren't in turn chewed up and spit back out.

I'm excited by the prospect - excited about a new city, excited to see my brother. Excited even just at the thought of the plane ride (I regress to the age of 4 when I get onto a plane: after the initial anxiety at take-off, I revert to being amazed with the tiny peanut packages and impressed by the choice of in-flight movies that require headphones). More...

Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card

Now that this month's book club has had its session, I am free to write about the last book we all read - Ender's Game. In all fairness, I have to tell you that I am not really going to review EG so much as just write a blog post on why I love it.

Ender's Game is one of my favorite books of all time. More...

Fingerprints of God, by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

On the recommendation of my parents, I started to read Fingerprints about two weeks ago. I tried to write a review about it a couple of nights ago, but found myself stymied, and instead wrote a (brilliant) analysis of Green Eggs and Ham. But now that I've had time to let the thoughts in Hagerty's book marinate, I think I'm ready.

I enjoyed this book. It was thought-provoking, interesting, challenging, and ultimately comforting. Hagerty, a journalist who at one point had left her Christian Scientist religion by the wayside, says very early on that she was motivated to begin researching whether there was any scientific research that supports that God exists because she had an unexplainable experience that she could only chalk up to being a brush with the divine. Hagerty prides herself on being truthful and factual, and half the battle was fought when she actually convinced herself to pursue this project, throwing her fears of ridicule to the wind. More...

Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Seuss

What we see in GE&H is a central conflict between two main characters. The protagonist, deliberately left unnamed, opens the action by railing against a mysterious, sign-holding dwarf. He does not like that Sam-I-Am.

Far from being upset by the protagonist's criticisms, Sam displays an unflappable calm as he offers what is traditionally seen as a universal sign of hospitality: food. In continually offering to break bread with the Protagonist, Sam could be interpreted as a martyr - the perfect host, the best friend, although continually rejected. More...

I have not posted anything new recently, mainly because I got irritated with the way everything sounded when I read it back over. I felt like everything sounded snarky, and - if not snarky - petulant, or at the very least, self-centered. So I stopped for a while, to figure out how else to write, and about what. That last part is very important, because I also felt like I was starting to write about the same things, over and over.

It took a while to come to me, but I eventually saw the light - it seems obvious, but I finally acknowledged that the long-standing affair that I have been having since I was four with reading is a full-fledged mistress (or would it be mister?), a relationship extrodinare second only to my husband,and sometimes not even him. More...