“He’s been counting on this one last shift for so long, as if it might hold some final answer. It can’t, he knows, yet he feels threatened by the idea of loosing his last chance.” - Stewart O’Nan For me this book perfectly captures that feeling of your last day at a job you sort …
But the series’ sneakiest achievement may have been the way it elevated, shattered, and remade the format of the police procedural, spider-webbing that old scaffolding with numberless subplots, bits of crackling dialogue, sickening and subtle imagery. Over the seasons, The Wire generated a sheer narrative density that demanded and assumed an intelligent audience was out …
“Of all the characters who’ve departed since last season began, he’s my Scarecrow: I’ll miss him most of all. Gilford’s quietly soulful performance has long been the heart of the show, and his character has captured everything great and frustrating about carrying all the virtues of growing up in a small town in your heart …
This summer I discovered the area U-pick farms in Ernest. Kelly and I were out picking fruit every other week it seemed. Several times we did things like cherry pick with umbrellas in the rain, but often for apple-picking the day was beautiful and clear. [Gwen Bell's Best of 09 Blog Challenge]
I have to admit, although my RSS reader had a lot of different feeds, before this year I wasn’t really following Food blogs. Some of my favorites, I can’t believe I hadn’t found before now. Smitten Kitchen (late to the party, I know – but don’t be like me, starting following Deb now) Joy the …
It’s rare that I read a book that I don’t like. Even the ones I’m not terribly fond of I can still find nice things to say about. Which is rather opposite from the way I feel about people, actually. Even so looking back through a list of books I read this past year, of …
I saw GwenBell’s Best of 09 Blog Challenge on Lit-Wit yesterday and I immediately wanted to play along. But I was knee-deep in a paper due this afternoon. So, I’m going to try and do as many of these possible, but I’ll probably end up playing catch up when I finish end of the semester …
So being in Grad School, my traveling is almost non-existent. Aside from a few weekend trips here and there, I rarely leave school. Thinking about the past year, my favorite trip was probably the impromptu trip I took with my family to Nashville. It was at the end of my winter break. My father and …
