Sunday, January 01, 2006
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Old and Black in America
disillusioned by the best
in this white world
disillusioned by the best
in this white world
about this blog
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Alpha Kappa Kappa Carl: The search for truth and enlightenment so that one day we may face Dr. Phil O'Mara at the gates of literary heaven with some pearls of wisdom nestled between our ears.
On the agenda:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
byGabriel Garcia Marquez
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other stuff
members
- ::Carl::
- Favorite books: Moby-Dick, The Great Gatsby, A Separate Peace, The Grapes of Wrath, The Things They Carried, Slaughter-House Five, Catcher in the Rye, Invisible Man, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Light In August
- Favorite authors: Herman Melville, Kurt Vonnegut, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Tim O'Brien - All of the American dudes!
- special interests: Music (Rock, Hardcore, Metal, etc), restoring old string instruments, teaching and education, outdoor activity (camping, rafting, hiking, etc)
- ::Kristy::
- Favorite books: Charlotte's Web, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Nick Adams, The Grapes of Wrath, The Devil's Teeth, Peter Pan, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chronicles of Narnia
- Favorite authors: John Jakes, Ernest Hemmingway, ee cummings, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, James Joyce, Mark Twain, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allen Poe, JRR Tolkien, John Steinbeck - stop me now!
- special interests: being insanely athletic, finding humor in incredibly serious situations, working too much, sleeping too little, eating gummy bears, swimming with sharks, writing manuscripts I never finish
- ::Amanda::
- Favorite books: Pride and Prejudice, Mrs. Dalloway, The Bell Jar, The Namesake, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions, The Color Purple, Les Miserables, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The English Patient, Invisible Man, On the Road
- Favorite authors: Ralph Ellison, Jane Austen, Jhumpa Lahiri, Isabel Allende, Pablo Neruda, W. B. Yeats, Sylvia Plath, George Orwell, Maxine Hong Kingston, Langston Hughes
- special interests: writing limericks, finding a professional athlete to be my baby daddy, traveling, politics, the philadelphia flyers, pointless arguments with my incorrigible mother
- ::Kristin::
- Favorite books: the Lord of the Rings, Catcher in the Rye, the Great Gatsby, Harry Potter, the Silmarillion, East of Eden, the Grapes of Wrath, the Last Unicorn, Leaves of Grass, Gilgamesh, the Eddas, The Master and Margarita
- Favorite authors: JRR Tolkien, Whitman, Albert Camus, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, David Eggers
- special interests: painting, political theory, comparative mythology, journaling, indulging my wanderlust