That Sunday when Bita Plant played the old straight piano to the singing of the Coloured Choristers in the beflowered school-room was the most exciting in the history of Jubilee…. In the opening pages of Banana Bottom, our protagonist, Bita Plant, returns home to the titular village after spending seven years being educated abroad. As we [...]
All posts for the month February, 2011
Banana Bottom
Posted by Kathleen on February 25, 2011
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Kathleen Recommends…Internet Time-Wasters (Pt. 2)
J! Archive j-archive.com For those of us who are regularly home in the early evening, and looking to scratch our useless trivia itch, “Jeopardy!” is just the show to make us feel smart, important, and not lonely at all. (And our cats like it too!) It’s got the kind of effortless formula that makes its [...]
Posted by Kathleen on February 20, 2011
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Kathleen Recommends…Internet Time-Wasters (Pt. 1)
The Great Gatsby Video Game greatgatsbygame.com As one of my former English professors explained it, The Great Gatsby is everybody’s favorite. Almost any other book in the canon is completely polarizing, but when it comes to Gatsby, you find practically universal appreciation. It’s got glamor, drama, pathos…and, as it turns out, the makings of a stellar video [...]
Posted by Kathleen on February 17, 2011
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In Defense of a Guilty Pleasure: Pretty Little Liars
… I have a tendency to watch a lot of television, which means that I am almost as frequently thinking of ways to defend this habit to my skeptical friends and acquaintances. I won’t get started on how pretentious, even downright pathetic I find the line, “I don’t watch television” (always delivered so smugly), but [...]
Posted by Kathleen on February 9, 2011
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