“In the silence that followed, Desdemona felt a strange emotion rising inside her. It spread in the space between her panic and grief–she recognized the emotion; it was happiness. Tears were running down her face and she was already berating God for taking her husband from her but on the other side of these proper …
“No more skipping breakfast; no more dropping out of school. With a windmill, we’d finally release ourselves from the troubles of darkness and hunger. In Malawi, the wind was one of the few consistent things given to us by God, blowing in the treetops day and night. A windmill meant more than just power, it …
“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”
“The Offer of the College” is the promotional material for my life. I drop the last line — I prefer a “life long” learning curve. My favorite line is “to lose yourself in generous enthusiasms,” with an emphasis on “generous.” “To be at home in all lands and all ages; to count Nature a familiar …
Furthermore, at certain hours of the day, when the sunshine is poured down at the required angle, the whole mass of the spray enveloping the fairy establishment is brilliantly irised; and it is through so glorious a rainbow atmosphere as this that some of our blessed ouzels obtain their first peep at the world.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, commonly known as Moll Flanders, is a novel written by Daniel Defoe in 1722. Moll Flanders is a heartbreaking tale of a woman seeking love in all the wrong places. As an adolescent Moll experiences what all girls do: issues with body image, her first crush, …
The narrator of this novel, a likeable poet named Paul Chowder, recounts his struggles to write the Introductory essay to a poetry anthology, Only Rhyme. He’s suffering from writer’s block – in a way, he knows too much. It’s hard for him to condense into prose his knowledge about poetry’s history, theory and significance. And …
Have you ever wondered what if? What would our world be like if the Trojans had never accepted that wooden horse? Or what if President Lincoln was not able to successfully join the North and the South? How would our world be different today? Harry Turtledove explores these types of questions through an alternative history …
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a pet that came from nowhere and ended up being loved by the whole world? Dewey is a heartwarming story for all ages that will make you think of any animal that ever needed a home. I have worked at the College Library since …
True Crime has always been a guilty pleasure of mine – maybe it’s the lawyer in me. Generally not the violent stuff (although Truman Capote’s classic In Cold Blood and Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City are two of my all-time favorites); I gravitate more toward true stories of con men, conterfeiters and …