Per recommendation of a friend working in a Waterstones bookshop in England, I acquired this book about six years ago. That did not turn out well at all, as I absolutely disliked this book after reading the first bit of it only. I was in a different frame of mind, I heard myself yelling inwardly: … Continue reading Bring Up the Bodies
Category: Literature
The Color Purple
I read Alice Walker’s The Color Purple during my recent trip to Arizona. My return flight was delayed just long enough for me to finish reading the book before arriving at my destination. For each trip, my hope is to start as one person and end as another, or at least undergoing some transformation. This … Continue reading The Color Purple
The Scaffolding of Rhetoric
In 1897, at the age of 23, Winston S. Churchill wrote an essay titled The Scaffolding of Rhetoric. You can read the original article here. In this essay, Churchill proposed six principal elements as the foundation of rhetoric. This unfinished manuscript appears to only discuss four elements in detail, with the other two less well … Continue reading The Scaffolding of Rhetoric
A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway was first published posthumously in 1964. It covers Hemingway’s time spent in Paris from 1921 to 1926 as a struggling journalist and his gradual transition from a journalist to a writer. I first read this book on my way from Silicon Valley to Sandia National Laboratories some years … Continue reading A Moveable Feast