While I am procrastinating revising my first article from my dissertation (yes, after that productive burst, I’ve been wallowing in writerly laziness, I confess), I’ve been thinking about my second article. My second reader on my committee suggested I look at W. Somerset Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge as a possible starting point for one of the articles, because it might complement one of my books pretty well. I have never read anything by Maugham, though I’d heard of his more famous work, Of Human Bondage. […]
A great book unpacking the power of TED in your talks
So, if you read my last CBR post, you’ll remember that I’ve been on a nonfiction kick (unusual for me, but I’m looking for good pedagogical techniques and other skills). My friend A had also recommended Carmine Gallo’s Talk Like TED, so I thought that it might be worth a try. Plus, I also teach a multi-modal oral literacy unit in my Composition II course in the spring, so I thought that having tips designed on TED Talks would be helpful. At first, I thought […]
Yes, and…a great new technique I want to try.
My friend A and went to Barnes and Noble a few months back, and her wide array of interests led to a surge in my Goodreads To-Read list. I’m not familiar with Business, Management, or good Self-Help books, so I am up for suggestions. At the same time, I am looking for ways to improve my pedagogy. While I’ve been reading a lot of novels to widen my learning base for my fall class, I’m also looking for books that will help me sharpen my […]
Rachel Held Evans’ brave, beautiful new book
Before I launch into my review, a little background. I’m a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, who was raised Conservative. While I am still an active believer with a church home, I am also a pro-birth control, pro-LGBT liberal academic. There are moments where I feel not-at-home in either my largely secular academic community or my largely Conservative, often-anti-LGBT Christian community. When I find like-minded souls, I glow a bit more, because I feel understood. And loved. And that brings me to Rachel Held Evans. I read […]
We’re all just dreamers in a doll’s house.
I enjoyed Preludes and Nocturnes so much that I was pretty sure I would enjoy The Doll’s House, the second volume in The Sandman comics. I am impressed by how Gaiman built on his story and pushed it in a new direction, one that makes me excited to continue the series. Dream has been restored, but now he must work to protect his kingdom from a dream vortex that threatens to invade others’ dreams and rip his world apart. Simultaneously, Rose Walker and her mother […]
What does it take to be a Kingsman?
I love me some Colin Firth. I also love me a good action movie. So when The Chancellor suggested a date night to see Kingsman: The Secret Service for Valentine’s Day, I was elated. Seriously, who needs Fifty Shades of Bleh? Overall, I enjoyed the movie up to the very end when a crude and tasteless sexist joke left a bad taste in my mouth. I was curioust o see how the graphic novel stacked up, and how Matthew Vaughn drew from the source material. […]
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