November 2009
2 posts
Hey! It's ok...
I have recently discovered the “Hey! It’s ok” column in Glamour magazine, which is also conveniently located on their web site. I think it’s genius that someone decided to take every woman’s guilty pleasures-who hasn’t eaten an entire bag of Oreos in one sitting-and make it into a feature, with the premise of it being totally normal and okay. For some reason,...
I was sorting through some of the classic books today for my internship, and I began to mentally make a list of all the classics I have yet to read. There should definitely be a list that every person should be required to read since some of these classics are so much a part of our culture.
Check them out yourself, www.dailylit.com/tags/classics
October 2009
1 post
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September 2009
5 posts
As the news editor of my school’s student newspaper, I have been kept busy this week with the announcement last Friday that one of the University’s alum and former commencement speaker, Doug Perlitz, has been indicted with charges of sexually abusing children in Haiti. He had started a school in Haiti to help the kids there, and received almost $2 million in donations from the...
My DailyLit
Defining Twilight (9 of 28)
Book Sampler: Modern Memoirs (9 of 14)
Wikipedia Tour: The Grand Tour (9 of 918)
The Age of Innocence (8 of 124)
My favorite so far has been the samplers of modern memoirs. I look at book lists and must-read lists and it is definitely difficult to sort through and find the memoirs that will appeal to me. With these installments, I can read enough to know...
Books versus movies
Last night I watched the new extended trailer for “New Moon,” the movie based on the second book in Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight saga. It looks great, and seems to be loads better from the first movie. Now, I’ve read the entire series twice, all four books once before even the first movie came out. I’m a huge Twilight fan and am anxiously awaiting the new movie. It made...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020344... →
This is a Wall Street Journal article about how the generation of 9/11 is now on the brink of adulthood. Since it’s the 8th anniversary of 9/11 today and since I’m a New Yorker who is a part of the 9/11 generation (I was 13 at the time), I thought it would be appropriate.