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I just saw this commercial on tv. It was about reading and using your imagination to go places! Omigosh! Love!
Apparently the Library of Congress started an ad campaign to get kids reading, called Lifelong Literacy.
The commercials start out at a train station crowded full of kids. (Harry Potter!) They’re looking at arrival/departure boards for places [...]

I don’t watch the show anymore, and can’t think why in the world I ever did watch it, but I guess I’ve got a few good references from it …
Whenever I read Little Women now (which is often, because I’ve reread it every few years since 7th or 8th grade), I can’t help but think [...]

I found out about Jodi Picoult’s The Tenth Circle from one of the Borders e-mails. I was intrigued; a novel with comics in it? And the story seemed interesting, from the preview available online.
I bought it, read it, and was not impressed. The ending was disappointing. I was expecting more of a resolution I suppose, [...]

I decided to start a new entry [from the "exactly relative sizes" one], since the last one went longer than I expected. (Why do I always do that?!)
Next up … I can’t remember the order. ._. I’ll just go with Burt’s Bees Beeswax lip balm.
I saw this ad in a Vanity Fair issue (I bought [...]

I am avoiding reading the paper my teacher wrote and assigned us to read in lieu of class and lab this week—it’s on estimating and “job costing,” whatever that is. 39 lovely pages on guessing how much it’ll cost to print something!
Instead my mind keeps wandering to Amazon’s Kindle. (I’m reading 39 pages in [...]