Ever since I found out that Tiny Cooper was getting his own musical I COULD NOT STOP freaking out for sheer delight. Tiny Cooper is the very large, very gay young man who is (let’s be honest) the real hero of John Green and David Levithan’s Will Grayson, Will Grayson (which I adored). Tiny has the effervescence you wish every best friend could bring to your life, and I could not soak him up enough. I was wondering how the musical itself would translate to […]
Never trust a red-haired curate.
Last year, I devoured the absolutely scrumptious Jane and Prudence for CBR6. It was like high tea–a savory sandwich, a course of strawberries, and cream, and a tart but juicy lemon dessert. [On a sidenote, I’ve definitely NOT been fantasizing about planning my next tea party. Not at all.] I’ve decided that this spring/summer needs to be dedicated to a Barbara Pym binge, because she is a delicious writer, and I need something delightful in my life–I read a lot of heavy literary fiction, and […]
A bit disappointing, really.
It’s a little difficult juggling book clubs sometimes, but my grad student book club is infinitely easier, because we only meet about 3 times in the school year. This time, my friend K suggested The Illusion of Separateness, and since it had received good reviews–including from her–we all agreed it would be a good pick. This is a novel told in vignettes, veering between 2010 and 1945, when John Bray goes to France to fight in World War II and Danny, a successful film director, […]
The Protagonist as a Young Man
The Chancellor and I were trying to decide how we heard of this novel. Eventually, we agreed that we saw it at Barnes and Noble as part of a Black History Month display, and then he’d added it on Goodreads, which meant *I* added it on Goodreads. Man, we’re book dorks. Anyway, it’s been part of a ginormous library stack that I didn’t have time to get to till this afternoon. Did I mention that one of the perks of becoming doctor in the middle […]
House Made of Words
House Made of Dawn is considered to be N. Scott Momaday’s best work (and it was granted a Pulitzer), so I thought that after my interesting experience with The Ancient Child, it might be best to go to his most acclaimed work. This is a hard novel to recap, because it relies so heavily on images and ideas than on narrative, plot, and character. But I’ll do the best I can: the story loosely revolves around an elderly Kiowa man, Francisco, and his grandson, Abel. […]
As a sidenote, I am now a Time Lord!
First things first: a little shameless self-promotion. I’m a doctor now!!!!!! I passed my dissertation defense on Wednesday. It was a rigorous experience, but I am incredibly glad to have gone through it. I’m excited about getting my work ready for publication, and even more excited that I never have to defend my dissertation again. And apparently, my institution secretly makes you a Time Lord when you earn a PhD–the elevators by the conference room I was in would begin to randomly open after I […]
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