August 2009
11 posts
confession
i am a 25 year old former lit major and i am reading pride and prejudice for the first time.
“could it be that they, like their male counterparts, ultimately relish the game...”
– cristina nehring, a vindication of love.
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a vindication of love, cristina nehring.
i wasn’t expecting this book to have such a self-help flavor, though looking back, the fact that it’s titled a vindication of love: reclaiming romance for the twenty-first century should have been a solid indicator. eitherway, i wound up enjoying the snapshots into the love lifes of both real life and fictional literary couples such as abelard and heloise, beatrice and dante, mary...
“the problem is not that it’s undignified to be a sex object. we are all...”
– cristina nehring, a vindication of love.
wilde's library →
how reading defined the life of oscar wilde.
incoherent vice: my thomas pynchon problem →
sam anderson reviews pynchon’s latest, inherent vice. glad i’m not alone in my distaste for pynchon’s writing style—v is one of the few books i’ve slogged through for weeks and eventually abandoned.
“romance in our day is a poor and shrunken thing. to some, it remains an explicit...”
– cristina nehring, a vindication of love.
currently reading
this. thirty pages in and so far so good.