My current reading list is dreadfully academic in nature, I’m afraid. There’s the stuff I’m reading for class, obviously-Hobbes’ Leviathan, Locke’s Two Treatises of Government. But for pleasure I’m reading Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (excellent so far-I’d recommend it to anyone, not only because it’s extremely important material but because Snyder […]
Browsing the blog archives for September, 2011
27 Sep 11
Flannery O’Connor on literature
I know I’ve posted this quote before, but it bears repeating. Week before last I went to Wesleyan and read “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” After it I went to one of the classes where I was asked questions. There were a couple of young teachers there and one of them, an earnest […]
22 Sep 11
Tim O’Brien on storytelling
Tim O’Brien, the Pulitzer-Prize-nominated author of The Things They Carried, spoke at the University of West Georgia last night. The Things They Carried has been one of my favorite books since I read an excerpt from it (the chapter “The Man I Killed,” to be exact) in my freshman humanities class at Geneva College, so […]
17 Sep 11
Review: Homage to Catalonia
A friend gave me a copy of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia a couple months ago. I’d never heard of it-I’m ashamed to admit I didn’t even know George Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War. But that wrong is now righted and Homage to Catalonia has become a new favorite. It’s engagingly written; Orwell […]
9 Sep 11
Last lines
Rereading The Killer Angels recently got me thinking about my favorite last lines from literature. Not necessarily my favorite endings-I might do another post for that-but the specific lines themselves that stick in my head for a long time after I put the book down. So here they are, starting with number five… 5. He […]
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I'm an amateur military historian, a drinker of coffee and dry red wine, a cinephile, a hockey fan, a cat lady, and an all-around nerd. I like to travel. I also like books, philosophy, and political theory. I write historical fiction and fantasy, most of which deals with combat and conflict in the individual experience. My debut YA historical fantasy novel His Own Good Sword was released on 7 May 2013.
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