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Randy Pausch, “Last Lecture” Professor Dead at 47

Posted in Books, Commentary, tagged , on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

After our wedding/graduation party I read Randy Pausch’s book based on his famous lecture “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.”  The professor of computer science had become an internet sensation for his upbeat and inspiring attitude in the face of terminal cancer.
I’ve been checking his personal website for his updates, but there hadn’t been anything since [...]

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Royal Blood

Posted in Books, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I finished reading Royal Blood: Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes, by Bertram Fields last night.  It’s a lawyers take on the case of the missing “Princes in the Tower” who vanished sometime during the reign of Richard III.  The general consensus has been that Richard III had the princes killed because he [...]

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We Were the Mulvaneys

Posted in Books, Commentary, tagged , , , on July 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

“It’s like happiness is a balloon and the balloon is somehow my head and it’s being blown up bigger and bigger and I’m scared as hell it’s going to burs and I’ll be left with nothing but scraps of rubber.”  – Patrick Mulvaney in We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates, p.452
We Were the [...]

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The Kid, by Dan Savage

Posted in Books, tagged , , on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I just finished reading The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Get Pregnant by Dan Savage, author of the syndicated sex column Savage Love.  I’d read the book before, but recently re-read his book on marriage which discusses their kid quite a lot, and wanted re-read the story of their adoption.
Savage [...]

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Book Review Round-Up

Posted in Books, Movies, tagged , , , , , , , on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Being non-working (until Tuesday) and without television as a form of entertainment has left me with plenty of time to read.  Since I’ve been here, I’ve finished one book that I had started at home and read two others.
First, The Longings of Women by Margie Piercy.  The novel tells the intersecting stories of three Boston [...]

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The Last Lecture

Posted in Books on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I just finished reading The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.  In case you haven’t heard of him, or his famous lecture, Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who found out last summer that he had three to six months to live before he died of pancreatic cancer.  The university has a tradition of [...]

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