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That I did always love



I bring thee proof:


That till I loved


I did not love enough.





That I shall love alway,


I offer thee


That love is life,


And life hath immortality.





This, dost thou doubt, sweet?


Then have I



Nothing to show


But Calvary.




-Emily Dickinson


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Blogging will be light the next few days until I figure out why my internet is going so sloooowwww. That's why I have been silent about the Conservatives acting conservative, even though I have bitched mightily when they haven't.

For a quick summary, let it be said I am in Camp Nicholls', and while I wouldn't call myself satisfied, I am pleased by Jim Flaherty's tax cuts. Perhaps now that they have seen/proven that there numbers will not increase while they act all Liberal-like, maybe Stephen Harper can get back to being all scary the way I like him.

MISERY is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch - as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow! How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? - from the covenant of peace, a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

-E.A.P.






As part of the R.I.P.
Challenge, I've been doing the 'Short Story Sunday Peril' and reading from 'The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe'.

It's a bit hard to review these stories, I don't really know why. Maybe because they are so short, but I will quotes the parts I liked best.





This weekend I read 'The Oblong Box', 'A Predicament' and 'Berenice'


I enjoyed these 3 short stories, and the setting was perfect, I woke up to a cold, rainy day and curled up with my book and a cup of tea.

I liked 'Berenice' most:


Berenice and I were cousins, and we grew up together in my paternal halls. Yet differently we grew - I, ill of health, and buried in gloom - she, agile, graceful, and overflowing with energy; hers, the ramble on the hill-side - mine the studies of the cloister; I, living within my own heart, and addicted, body and soul, to the most intense and painful meditation - she, roaming carelessly through life, with no thought of the shadows in her path, or the silent flight of the raven-winged hours. Berenice! -I call upon her name - Berenice! - and from the gray ruins of memory a thousand tumultuous recollections are startled at the sound! Ah, vividly is her image before me now, as in the early days of her light-heartedness and joy! Oh, gorgeous yet fantastic beauty! Oh, sylph amid the shrubberies of Arnheim! Oh, Naiad among its fountains! And then - then all is mystery and terror, and a tale which should not be told.







I found 'A Predicament'
to be strange and even kind of racist. It was just plain ridiculous at one point, it did make me laugh out loud:



But now a new horror presented itself, and one indeed sufficient tostartle the strongest nerves. My eyes, from the cruel pressure of themachine, were absolutely starting from their sockets. While I wasthinking how I should possibly manage without them, one actuallytumbled out of my head, and, rolling down the steep side of thesteeple, lodged in the rain gutter which ran along the eaves of themain building. The loss of the eye was not so much as the insolentair of independence and contempt with which it regarded me after itwas out. There it lay in the gutter just under my nose, and the airsit gave itself would have been ridiculous had they not been disgusting. Such a winking and blinking were never before seen.





'The Oblong Box' was not what I expected.

I called assistance, and, with much difficulty, we brought him to himself. Upon reviving he spoke incoherently for some time. At length we bled him and put him to bed. The next morning he was quite recovered, so far as regarded his mere bodily health. Of his mind I say nothing, of course. I avoided him during the rest of the passage, by advice of the captain, who seemed to coincide with me altogether in my views of his insanity, but cautioned me to say nothing on this head to any person on board.




I'll be reading more Poe and posting again next weekend.



see here for his complete works online

Since Halloween is soon upon us, I decided to post some of my favorite spooky reads:


1. Salem's Lot by Stephen King: One of my most favorite King novels, a scary vampire story. It's just so creepy the way the sleepy town of Jerusalem is home to blood sucking vampires.




2. The Taking by Dean Koontz : My favorite D.K. novel has alien invasion, nasty alien fungi, dolls and human heads that become possessed, and a very intersting ending. I highly recommend.





3. Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe : My favorites are 'The Tell-tale Heart' and 'The Raven'. I read these stories in grade school and always loved his work.




4. Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice :
One of my favorite vampire stories....very well written, creepy, sexy, scary....a must read.



5. H.P. Lovecraft: Tales: A creepy collection of spooky stories. Some of these gave me goosebumps, it's all so dark and scary.



6. yep...another S.K. movel....Everythings Eventual by Stephen King: I have a short attention span, this is one of the reasons I love S.K.'s short stories. I get my dose of a great horror read quicker. 'Autopsy Room Four' and 'Riding the Bullet' are particularly juicy.



7. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz: My favorite of the three 'Odd' books, is his first in the series. It's a classic 'I see dead people' tale. And you quickly love the hero, Odd Thomas. Great humor is thrown in here as well.










8. Misery by Stephen King: Poor writer Paul Sheldon, gets into a car accident during a blizzard and is 'rescued' by manical nurse/#1fan, Annie Wilkes. The movie version was good, but the book is way better. Some parts of this story will just make you cringe....and that's a good thing.

I created this post to keep track of my 'Reading Challenges 2007'

This is my first time doing challenges and I have found some great reads and met some very nice people online.


Ok, here goes:


'Something About Me Reading Challenge'

I read:

1. Chocolat by Joanne Harris

2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

4. On Writing A Memoir of the Craft, by Stephen King




R.I.P. II challenge


I read:


1. Frankenstien, Book I by Dean Koontz

2. Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

3. Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice

and I have been doing the 'Short Story Sunday Peril' by reading stories from 'The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe'.





Book to Movie Challenge

I read:

1. The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger


2. Little Women by Luisa May Alcott




Fall Into Reading 2007


none read yet





*yay* I'm impressed at how many great books I've read these past few months.