December 2011
7 posts
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next...”
– T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding.”
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The leap.
How I Met Your Mother became available on Netflix Instant a few weeks ago and having missed most of the first few seasons save a rerun here or there, I have been watching the show from the beginning. I love this show because I can relate to the characters and their struggles, young professionals in NYC trying to figure out who they are versus who they expected to be, and who they’re going to...
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December reading notes
This month I’ve been tearing through my stack of “to-read” books in a race against time to pad the amount of books I’ve read in 2011. Since I started tracking the books I read each year in a spreadsheet this has become a sort of December tradition for me, albeit a deranged one.
I started off the month with Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan, for which I could write a six page essay about the problems...
“As I see it, the problem with Amazon stems from the fact that though it started...”
– Richard Russo, “Amazon’s Jungle Logic.”
