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So, I've seen a few blogs that my friends have done, and I realized that I haven't posted that much about me....

So….I like writing…of course it’s obvious by this blog, but I just had the urge to say it. But it’s not true that that’s the only thing I like to do. I like to draw, read, and of course, stay on the computer dwindling my youth away. But hey, I’ll worry about that when I have come to the end of it. Right now, I would rather sit down in my room and type away, or watch away, ...

A Victorian group that I belong to has selected to read Far From Madding Crowd in August, and I am on the fence about whether or not I wish to partake.

I am intrigued to read Hardy's work, and I have read Tess and enjoyed it and I really like his prose work but based upon the synopsis I have read in regards to FFMC it does not sound like something that immediately grabs my interest.

Not surprisingly books about Love Triangles (or love squares as I have been told it ...

I have realized that I am not the active reader I used to be. I read a lot when I was pregnant. I was very sick so I spent about 6 months in bed or on the couch reading. when my son was born I just didn't have time and the little time I did have I spent studying and at night I was just so tired. I read more now, but books that used to take 2 or 3 days to read take me now 2 or 3 weeks, if I'm lucky. There was a time when I could have read about 10 a month now it's one and a half... this annoys me ...

No, this entry in my autobiography is not about the influence Yentl and Barbra Streisand have had on my life. Jun's recent blog post on her father reminded me that I haven't posted to my autobiography in a little while. So, as a self-identified trend following conformist, this entry will address my father.

My father was born in South Eastern rural Quebec, a little bit North of the Vermont border, sometime in the 1940s. He grew up on a large dairy farm, on land my family had owned ...

Becasue sometimes posts in the author threads can get over looked, I am reposting this here in my blog as well.

As some people may know from previous comments I have made I am to say the least a bit ambivalent about Conrad, I am trying to be good and not judge him based upon just one reading experience, but I had attempted to read Lord Jim and I could not get into the writing and found the story difficult to follow and eventually had to give up on the book.

I have ...