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RENT

29.08.2007 Wednesday 12:04 A GMT+07
news from a renthead

Hallow-ed Ground

22.07.2007 Sunday 5:06 P GMT+07
spoilers ahead
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ONE year

19.09.2006 Tuesday 7:02 P GMT+07
because it's been one year
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Chasing Vermeer

15.05.2006 Monday 4:50 P GMT+07
Impulse Purchase
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)

16.07.2005 Saturday 4:44 P GMT+07
Review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

26.06.2005 Sunday 8:11 P GMT+07
Review of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Vintage Contemporaries)

23.03.2005 Wednesday 9:02 A GMT+07
The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night Time is narrated by Christopher Boone, the main character.  He is a teenager who has Asperger's Syndrome.He lives with his father, because his mother is dead.When he finds a neighbor's dog speared through

The Rule of Four

15.01.2005 Saturday 7:56 P GMT+07
The blurb on the back says "A stunning first novel, a perfect blend of suspense and a sensitive coming-of-age story. If Scott Fitzgerald, Umberto Eco, and Dan Brown teamed up to write a novel, the result would be The Rule of Four." -Nelson
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Ooh!

22.12.2004 Wednesday 11:20 P GMT+07
In the fifth and most recent book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the last chapter, titled "The Second War Begins," started: 'In a brief statement Friday night, Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge confirmed that He-Who-Must-Not-Be

An If Of Day

26.09.2004 Sunday 6:27 P GMT+07
Really busy, but happy and happy enough to wish I could pass it around to everyone.  So here is a quick pick-me-upper from one of my absolutest favorite poets, e.e. cummings, who, when i am in need of the ultimate picker upper, never NEVER disappoin
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The Time Traveler's Wife (Harvest Book)

19.09.2004 Sunday 12:35 P GMT+07
The concept of time travel has always been, to my mind, the stuff of sappy romances.  Case in point:  Somewhere in Time.  The usual story is always someone traveling forward in time or traveling back in time with the aid of some magical thing and

See I'm all about them words

18.05.2004 Tuesday 1:59 A GMT+07
Over numbers, unencumbered numbered words/Hundreds of pages, pages, pages forwards/More words then I had ever heard and I feel so alive/Now you and I, you and I/Not so little you and I anymore/And with this silence brings a moral story /more importan

Travelogues

18.04.2004 Sunday 1:59 A GMT+07
The self is not contained in any moment or any place, but it is only in the intersection of moment and place that the self might, for a moment, be seen vanishing through a door which disappears at once. I am rereading Winterson's Sexing the Cherry .

Another Writer

03.01.2004 Saturday 1:59 A GMT+07
Jeanette Winterson is one of my favorite writers. Her novel Sexing the Cherry , is my favorite. I love to read her work because she continually challenges the preconceptions I have had of things, be they trivial or consequential. I subscribe to her m

Start the Year Right

02.01.2004 Friday 1:59 A GMT+07
And for me, one of the ways to do that is by starting to reread Rilke , my favorite writer. Here is a hopeful note for the rest of the year: "...be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like l
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