ErynnIm is currently reading Anna Karenina.
I’m 26 years old, female, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since March 31, 2009.
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Question of the Week - Question of the Week #28: For Adults Only
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA for me as well. 4th grade. My overambitious mother yanked me away from my beloved BABYSITTERS CLUB series and I was like WTF, this old man is hella boring. I'd like to believe that my reading tastes are more refined now and I love me some Hemingway.
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Anna Karenina
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #20: Potent Quotables
I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
- A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
Walden - Intro
" I will therefore ask those of my readers who feel no particular interest in me to pardon me if I undertake to answer some of these questions in this book...I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."
Why does he apologize for his story if we've already chosen to engage in it. Reading's not an act that can be inflicted on someone. It's rather a clear and decisive choice and commitment. His claim to humility, ironically, reeks of arrogance to me in these first few paragraphs. Am I being too cynical?