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-23 posts tagged "Books"
Elizabeth Prater | Wednesday, April 7, 2021
I live about 10 miles north of Klickitat Street, the place where the eponymous Ramona Quimby lives in “Beezus and Ramona.” Beverly Cleary, American author of both children’s and young adult fiction, passed away March 25, 2021. While I felt particularly attached to Ramona because of the proximity of my world to her fictitious one,
Gabriel Niforatos | Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Let me tell you a story. It was a yawning New Mexican evening, the desert breeze running its fingers delicately through our living room blinds and the last spears of golden light playing across the tiled floor. My computer sat in front of me, a blank page glaring at me as I thought of what
Sara Schlecht | Monday, March 30, 2020
Having been forcibly returned to my childhood bedroom for the rest of the semester, I am now surrounded by the possessions not deemed worthy of getting rid of quite yet but also not so essential to my life to be in my beloved room in Le Mans Hall. Most of these are books — some
Ryan Israel, Mike Donovan and Jake Winningham | Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Always the ones to seek the positive in a negative situation, Scene sees these next few weeks of online classes and social distancing as an opportunity to catch up on shows and movies, read a good book and connect with our minds and souls. This can also give you the motivation to start that really
Evan McKenna | Thursday, January 23, 2020
If you were to ask my parents to recount any memories they have of my second grade experience, they might have a tough time digging up any stories. Why, you ask? Holding back tears, my mother might explain to you why I went off the grid that year: “When Evan was seven, he locked himself
Hanna Kennedy | Tuesday, November 5, 2019
The Brain Lair. It’s an anagram for librarian and a fitting name for Kathy Burnette’s bookstore, located just five minutes from campus. Before opening Brain Lair Books, Burnette held positions as a librarian in local elementary and middle schools for almost 20 years. “I’ve always wanted to open a bookstore,” Burnette said. “I visited some
Charlie Kenney | Thursday, September 13, 2018
This past June, just weeks after his death, I read Anthony Bourdain’s breakthrough book from 2000, “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.” The manner in which I did so, admittedly, is not the most respectable way that I could have gone about it. The way I dove into Bourdain’s book is the same way
Sara Schlecht | Thursday, November 16, 2017
Give the gift of literacy to someone you know today, and the gift will also be shared with others. That is the aim of the ninth annual Usborne Book Fair which will be held Thursday and Friday in the atrium of the Student Center at Saint Mary’s. This fair is held to assist The Learning
Kathryn Marshall | Monday, November 21, 2016
The Saint Mary’s Faculty Colloquium Series continued Friday with presentations by Dawn Farmer, visiting assistant professor of music, and Sarah Noonan, visiting assistant professor of English. Farmer provided insight into the shifting themes and sub-strands associated with the terms “urban,” “inner city,” “at risk,” “race” and “diversity” from 1991 to 2010 in her talk “Discursive Trends
Mike Donovan | Friday, November 18, 2016
Cultural movements hit the youth psyche like violent ocean swells. They crash furiously onto populated shores, submerging everybody and everything in their path. Then, after a few moments, they recede back into the ocean as rapidly as they came. Before long, another wave hits, and the process begins again. In the midst of the voracious