About Me

chameleon; work-in-progress; writer; madwoman; punk; internet dj; poet; princess; lover of words; starving artist; intellectual; dork; loud-mouth; imp; devil's advocate; brat; bibliophile; erotophile;

Home on web at http://dastardlyslife.blogspot.com/

My BookLists

• To-Read (Top 10 of 60)
  • Mansfield Park
    by Austen, Jane
  • Madame Bovary
    by Flaubert, Gustave
  • My Antonia
    by Cather, Willa
  • Sister Carrie
    by Dreiser, Theodore
  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
    by Defoe, Daniel
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
    by Dumas, Alexandre
  • Crime and Punishment
    by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
  • Ulysses
    by Joyce, James
  • Great Expectations
    by Dickens, Charles
  • The Idiot
    by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
  • View the entire BookList: To-Read
• Favorites (Top 10 of 37)
  • Hamlet
    by Shakespeare, William
  • Macbeth
    by Shakespeare, William
  • Oedipus Trilogy
    by Sophocles
  • Othello
    by Shakespeare, William
  • On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
    by Thoreau, Henry David
  • 3 Short Reads by Edgar Allan Poe
    by Poe, Edgar Allan
  • The Masque of the Red Death
    by Poe, Edgar Allan
  • The Murders in the Rue Morgue
    by Poe, Edgar Allan
  • Walden
    by Thoreau, Henry David
  • Leaves of Grass
    by Whitman, Walt
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Browse BookLists

• Persuasion 86% complete
• Jane Eyre 78% complete
• Women in Love 16% complete
• Emma 99% complete
• Wuthering Heights finished
• Vanity Fair finished
• The Awakening and Selected Short Stories finished
• The Diamond as Big as the Ritz finished
• The Camel's Back finished
• Ligeia finished
• The Jelly-Bean finished
• Daisy Miller finished
• Tales of the Jazz Age finished
• Dubliners finished
• Dead Souls finished
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button finished
• Poems by Emily Dickinson finished
• Who is Mark Twain? finished
• The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume I finished
• The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind finished
• The Children of the Night finished
• Wessex Poems and Other Verses finished
• Poems by Wilfred Owen finished
• Phantasmagoria and Other Poems finished
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner finished
• The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems finished
• Poems of the Past and Present finished
• Poems of John Keats finished
• The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems finished
• The Faerie Queene, Book I finished
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers finished
• The Hunting of the Snark finished
• The Awakening finished
• The Dead finished
• Random Reminiscences of Men and Events finished
• The Picture of Dorian Gray finished
• How to Speak and Write Correctly finished
• Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth finished
• Heart of Darkness finished
• Life on the Mississippi finished
• A Tale of Two Cities finished
• Confessions of an English Opium-Eater finished
• Art and Craft of the Machine finished
• A Doll's House finished
• The Playboy of the Western World finished
• The Yellow Wallpaper finished
• Uncle Vanya finished
• Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer finished
• Poems by Oscar Wilde finished
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin finished
• Pygmalion finished
• Poems of William Blake finished
• Poems of Paul Verlaine finished
• Masters of Verse finished
• The Importance of Being Earnest finished
• Poems finished
• Renascence and Other Poems finished
• Wikipedia Tour: Nobel Laureates in Literature finished
• Book Sampler: Poetry finished
• Prufrock and Other Observations finished
• Jabberwocky finished

Reader Challenges - 6 Word Autobiography

constantly seeking moments of breathtaking wonder

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Question of the Week - Question of the Week #20: Potent Quotables

First, I have a mouth like a sailor, so these are probably my most-quoted: Heathers -- "F*** me gently with a chainsaw," and Ginsberg's "America" -- "America/Go f*** yourself with your atom bomb." Others: Anne Sexton, from "With Mercy For The Greedy" --"My friend, my friend, I was born/ doing reference work in sin, and born/ confessing it. This is what poems are:/with mercy/ for the greedy,/ they are the tongue's wrangle,/ the world's pottage, the rat's star." Again, Sexton, from "Live" -- "I say Live, Live because of the sun,/the dream, the excitable gift." Lots from Bret Easton Ellis' "Less Than Zero" -- "Disappear Here," "People are afraid to merge," etc. There are lots more, lots better, but I can't think of the exact phrasing at the moment. And lyrics, constantly quoting lyrics. Etc.

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