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Don’t know your ABCs? That’s okay! You can still create a poem

Emily Writes: Emily Dickinson and Her Poetic Beginnings by Jane Yolen

October 30, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

When you read a book that you have wanted to for awhile and it is not what you expected, that can be a bit disappointing. Sometimes it can make it even better than expected. And sometimes it is a combination. Emily Writes: Emily Dickinson and Her Poetic Beginnings is one of those books that was a combination.   Jane Yolen is a writer. She knows how to spin a tale and makes Dickinson come to life. However, due to lack of information about Dickinson as a […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Christine Davenier, Emily Dickinson, Girls & Women, Jane Yolen, Massachusetts, poets

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:337 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Christine Davenier, Emily Dickinson, Girls & Women, Jane Yolen, Massachusetts, poets ·
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Sudo read this comic if you don’t already

XKCD Volume 0 by Randall Munroe

June 13, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Since starting to work from home full time in March, I have gotten a little out of the habit of checking the XKCD web-comic regularly. I’ve forgotten how I first found it; I suspect my brother forwarded me one he thought I’d like and the rest, as they say,… Anyways, I realized that I had XKCD: Volume 0 on my shelf, and I don’t think I’ve ever read it through until very recently. The tagline on the webcomic is “A web-comic of romance, sarcasm, math, […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: computer science, Emily Dickinson, Linux, Literature, math, Randall Munroe, Romance, web comic, xkcd, XKCD Volume 0

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:50 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: computer science, Emily Dickinson, Linux, Literature, math, Randall Munroe, Romance, web comic, xkcd, XKCD Volume 0 ·
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If Your Nerdiest English Professor Wrote A Cookbook

MLA Members Cook by Modern Language Association

January 5, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

There are two ways to think about this: what’s the nerdiest thing you can think of OR what’s the most in-jokey vanity project you can think of? Either way, the answer is MLA Members Cook!  This is a cookbook supposedly created by collecting recipes from members of the MLA; yes that MLA, as in the formatting and citation style your English teachers and professors made you use. I said ‘supposedly’ created  because based on what this supposed book is presented as, a cookbook by members […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food Tagged With: cookbook, cranberries, Emily Dickinson, gin, MLA, MLA style, Pablo Neruda, Roald Dahl, Shakespeare, su dongpo, Walt Whitman

CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:1 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: cookbook, cranberries, Emily Dickinson, gin, MLA, MLA style, Pablo Neruda, Roald Dahl, Shakespeare, su dongpo, Walt Whitman ·
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The Woman Upstairs. You wouldn’t like her when she’s angry.

January 7, 2014 by ElCicco

This novel appeared on several 2013 “best novels” lists and it seems to fit into a genre that’s very popular these days, featuring a narrator whose truthfulness and mental well being are unclear. As I read, I was reminded of novels like The Other Typist and The Dinner, but The Woman Upstairs carves out its own place. The narrator comes across as abrasive yet sympathetic, a flawed human deserving compassion and yet somewhat self-involved, too. This contradiction compelled me to stay with the story and find out […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alice Neel, anger, art, Claire Messud, Edie Sedgwick, ElCicco, Emily Dickinson, The Dinner, The Other Typist, The Woman Upstairs, Wonderland

ElCicco's CBR6 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alice Neel, anger, art, Claire Messud, Edie Sedgwick, ElCicco, Emily Dickinson, The Dinner, The Other Typist, The Woman Upstairs, Wonderland ·
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