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Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Illuminated Manuscripts: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.ph...

Rereading. It's bad when I don't remember anything when rereading a book...

New edition of Rizal's El Filibusterismo: http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/Bo...

'The Bippolo Seed': The 'Lost' Dr. Seuss Stories http://n.pr/hti0DP

How to get insulted by your favorite authors: http://bit.ly/gJ6mjt #awesome

Forget about the lost hour - where did my WEEK go?!? Making brownies for class tomorrow and wishing I had more time to catch up on my reading.

Dear Los Angeles Times, this is a photo of Jennifer Egan http://fb.me/Xdp1E9Iq

Six Ways You Can Help Earthquake and Tsunami Victims in Japan http://t.co/gnLaGw4

Ummm... yay? Worst Celebrity Books of 2011 and 2012 http://bit.ly/gHmAWw

Ha! Jane Austen drinking game: http://www.mostlywatertheatre.com/jad...

Books to be made into movies this year: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/20...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/20...

Apparently in the early 1800s Mexico was plagued by illegal aliens - i.e., Americans illegally entering Mexican territory!

Interesting history of what we think is (but isn't) in the bible. http://www.cracked.com/article_18757_...

"The privileging of economically stable European couples went hand-in-hand with immigration policies that mandated the exclusion and deportation of immigrant women whose sexuality was deemed threatening to, or uncontained within, heteropatriarchal marriage. Discourses... provided tools to describe the threat represented by these 'undesirable' women and to craft techniques for identifying and expelling them.

I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. "Flour and sugar," she said, and then thought a bit. "Sometimes we'll buy pretzels, for a splurge." It crossed my mind that the world's most efficient psychological evaluation would have just the one question: Define splurge.

(intro) We would be better served by developing more complex and nuanced accounts of how sexualization, racialization, and other processes continue to be imposed and contested at multiple levels in the immigration system today.... Relations of power and inequality at the border cannot e separated from inequitable global relations that structure migration patterns or from social hierarchies within the United States.

"Literary critic Sau-Ling Wong has observed: 'Asian American authors are not... promoting a rarefied aestheticism. Instead, they are formulating an 'interested disinterestedness' appropriate to their condition as minority artists with responsibilities to their community.'"

2011 Book Preview - yay! Vowell, Murakmi, Mieville, DFW, Vonnegut, Perec, etc. http://www.themillions.com/2011/01/mo...

2011 Book Preview - DFW, Mieville, Vowell, Murakami, etc. http://www.themillions.com/2011/01/mo...

Just got the reading list for next semester - almost 30 books to cram in unless I panic and drop a course. So this is going back on the shelf... :(

Finally done, and two more classes to go!

I had a dream last night that I was reading, but every time I flipped back through it, the book changed and I couldn't find my place anymore. What does it mean?!

Don't spoil it - I've been waiting a while to get a second to read this! :)

Rereading Beloved for another class.

"Math is hard!" - Barbie

Edmund Spenser is one strange cat.

"Impatience, thought Jerome and Sylvie, is a twentieth-century virtue.... Like anyone else, they could have made it; but all they wanted was to have it made."

"Money - and this point cannot but be an obvious one - creates new needs."

Reading it out of order - I just finished book 5. Radigund is awesome! Talus is funny, but probably unintentionally so...