Miscellaneous

Evil

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In crime fiction, bad acts are the norm. Violence both civilized and grotesque make up the themes within. Not much seems too far fetched to the reader because there is a unwritten agreement between the reader and writer –ignore improbability and simply enjoy. The concept of evil, that the murderers within the pages are of … Read more

Identity Crisis

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by Jas Faulkner    THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding   Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing   Memory and desire, stirring   Dull roots with spring rain.   Winter kept us warm, covering          Earth in forgetful snow, feeding   A little life with dried tubers.-T.S.Eliot … Read more

You’re Crazy To Read That Book!

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What does it say about an individual that has read many of the titles on ABE’s list of books with mental illness? Don’t answer that. If I haven’t read the book, I’ve seen the TV movie, or big screen drama. Their list isn’t a long one, but it’s chock full of loony bin delights such … Read more

Community Lives!

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by Jas Faulkner 

litbooksJeremy is finishing a story while Kaia and I look at the clock.  We’re waiting with a dozen other classmates for the big hand to click over to the twelve and the little hand to scoot to the six.  At that point, at least for us, class is in session.

Not that anyone would notice if we were late.

After all, Jeremy is somewhere near Jackson Hole ,  I am in Nashville, Kaia is in Victoria, BC,  and the rest of our study group is scattered all over the globe. Our classroom is a digital  pocket of space and time, an online intellectual stasis chamber situated somewhere in 2009 at Yale.  Open Yale Courses  is home to English 300 Introduction to the Theory of Literature, a class that the fifteen of us watch as a group and then discuss in a private email list for the rest of the week.  It is one of the forty-five online courses Yale offers free of charge to anyone with a desire to know more.

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Jekkle University Textbooks

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Education is the fundamental building block that shapes the path that your life will take. Whether studying for business or law, engineering or physics, every student knows that come that new semester, it’s time to clock out of the social arena, and recluse back into the pages of instruction for yet another term. Books can be expensive, and for students … Read more