Sunday, November 16, 2008
12:50 AM
"And is that not literature's gift? Its contribution? To see through another's eyes, to take another perspective, and to take the reader along on that journey, goes to the very purpose, the moral heart, of the work. It is the reason I write."
- Monica Ali, commenting on Brick Lane.
Hi all, I hope you enjoyed this year's Literature course. Hopefully it has nurtured your love for reading and you will read avidly during the holidays. Remember you are supposed to post your reflections here!!! :P
6:01 AM
For your viewing pleasure
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
5:55 AM
"Stop promising us things"(sometimes) unseen talent lurks in
a thousand splendid students
(or twenty one)
artistic baBIEs
lovers of the floating world
amidst the wasteland
a fascination with her shoes
pregnant pauses are rare
inappropriate questions aplenty
a library filled with literary laughter
brian yeap wen hao
and humpa lahiri
thinking aloud: a class i will miss
Thursday, September 18, 2008
8:21 AM
hi beloved students, please forgive the delay in my promised poem. I am working hard on it because I want it to be very good :P Meanwhile, you shall have to content yourself with this one. Emily Dickinson is a very famous poet and writes very interesting poems. Hope you like it!I'm nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody, too?Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!They'd advertise -- you know!How dreary to be somebody!How public like a frogTo tell one's name the livelong dayTo an admiring bog!- Emily Dickinson
5:54 PM
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose stubborn, lonely and combative literary struggles gained the force of prophecy as he revealed the heavy afflictions of Soviet Communism in some of the most powerful works of the 20th century, died late on Sunday at the age of 89 in Moscow...
Read the full article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html
8:13 PM
hi all,
Hope you enjoyed and survived OBS. Very sorry to hear about the people who got stung by wasps!
Here is a link to the BBC World Book Club, where you can listen to authors talk about their books. Among them are Arundhati Roy talking about
'The God Of Small Things' and Amy Tan talking about
'Joy Luck Club' so the people doing those books can check it out :)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/133_wbc_archive_new/index.shtml
10:50 PM
