The Beauty of Multitasking LRR, March 30, 2014February 8, 2025 Like many of you readers, I have too many interests and not enough time. Being the industrious person that I am, I have started to combine my hobbies to try to be more efficient. However, because my three favorite activities are running, crocheting (and/or knitting), and reading, the resulting combinations… Continue Reading
Top 10 Short Stories by Famous Authors LRR, March 6, 2014February 8, 2025 The short story has been defined in several different manners. One definition that I find particularly pleasing is, “a story that one should be able to read in one sitting”. Edgar Allen Poe said something similar once. Here’s a list of some of my favorites, not in any respective order…. Continue Reading
Feed Your Inner Wanderer LRR, February 28, 2014February 8, 2025 “A man cannot become wise until he has weathered/ his share of winters in this world” – from The Wanderer, trans. RM Liuzza *** Though the wind-chill was still below zero this morning, little February is coming to an end and taking winter with it. Spring is just 20 days… Continue Reading
Ten Fantastic Examples of Queer Person-of-Color Literature LRR, February 12, 2014February 8, 2025 In my experience as a student of the public school system, English literature departments seldom offer texts in the curriculum that deviate from a white, middle-to-upper class, Eurocentric (and very often male) voice. Students like me are taught authors like Shakespeare and Dickens, Steinbeck and Fitzgerald and Faulkner. The poets… Continue Reading