A bookworm journalist blogs on literature and life
From the monthly archives:
Sobering news for this week’s edition of Journalism Friday. Today marks the final edition of one of the one of the two daily papers in Denver, Colorado, The Rocky Mountain News. After almost 150 years in business, the paper is being shut down. I’ve never been a reader of this particular paper, but I have [...]
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Boyfriend and I have very different tastes and habits. He hates musicals and sports, I wish Friday Night Lights would incorporate dance sequences. He says “soda,” and I say “pop.” We also have very different styles when it comes to trying to pick out our entertainment options.
When we go to rent a movie, Boyfriend likes [...]
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It’s hard for me to imagine imagine Rob, the main character of High Fidelity as anyone other than John Cusack because of his awesome performance in the movie version. When I picked up the book version of High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, I know I was going to want to see the movie again [...]
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I got started on my BIP Week 4 projects last week, and although I’m only partially finished I thought today would be a good day for my own update.
I’m in the process of updating my About Me page. I added a section of Awards (in progress) and Communities, and am going to work on [...]
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It’s been a very good week of reading for me. I finished High Fidelity and Lipstick Jihad, both books that I enjoyed very much, although for very different reasons. Lipstick Jihad reignited by interest in learning more about the Iranian Revolution, and I finally decided to do something about it. I ventured to our enormous [...]
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In last week’s edition of Journalism Friday I wrote about my process of reporting and doing audio editing for my first multimedia story — a project about Art and Maral Shegonee’s Kids in the Rotunda performance at the Overture Center. This week in class we worked on photo editing using Adobe Photoshop, so I’m just [...]
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Last week I was awarded the Excessively Diverting Blog Award by AustenProse, thank you! This award was created by the bloggers at Jane Austen Today who describe the award like this:
The aim of the Excessively Diverting Blog Award is to acknowledge writing excellence in the spirit of Jane Austen’s genius in amusing and delighting readers [...]
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I’ve always believed in the symbolism of small moments, that we can find meaning in our lives through the conflicts and triumphs that we have every day. Saturday by Ian McEwan, more than just about any other book I’ve read, captures this idea beautifully using a single day in the life of Dr. Henry Perowne.
Saturday, [...]
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I just found out today that an article I submitted for publication in January was published! The story is called “Independent bookstores fight for survival”, and can be found in 77 Square, a local arts and entertainment guide in Madison!
For all you long-time readers out there, I’ve mentioned this particular story a couple of times; [...]
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