Archive - Jun 2010

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The Corrections

The Corrections

author: Jonathan Franzen

name: Steev

average rating: 3.64

book published: 2001

rating: 5

read at: 2010/06/27

date added: 2010/06/27

shelves: fun, novels, spirit-self

The Cost of Privilege: Taking On the System of White Supremacy and Racism

The Cost of Privilege: Taking On the System of White Supremacy and Racism

author: Chip Smith

name: Steev

average rating: 4.12

book published: 2007

rating: 5

read at: 2010/06/19

date added: 2010/06/20

shelves: politics

Podkayne of Mars

Podkayne of Mars

author: Robert A. Heinlein

name: Steev

average rating: 3.57

book published: 1962

rating: 3

read at: 1974/01/01

date added: 2010/06/19

shelves: novels

review:
I don't remember much about this book, just that it was the second "adult" book I ever read, after "The Hobbit", when I was I think like 5 or 6 years old. It's about a young girl that travels to Mars if I recall.

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

author: William Shakespeare

name: Steev

average rating: 3.76

book published: 1595

rating: 3

read at:

date added: 2010/06/18

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The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)

The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)

author: Homer

name: Steev

average rating: 3.61

book published: -750

rating: 3

read at:

date added: 2010/06/18

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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)

A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)

author: Charles Dickens

name: Steev

average rating: 3.66

book published: 1859

rating: 3

read at:

date added: 2010/06/18

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Lolita

Lolita

author: Vladimir Nabokov

name: Steev

average rating: 3.83

book published: 1955

rating: 4

read at:

date added: 2010/06/18

shelves:

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Prenuptial Agreements: How to Write a Fair and Lasting Contract. Book with CD-Rom (Second Edition)

Prenuptial Agreements: How to Write a Fair and Lasting Contract. Book with CD-Rom (Second Edition)

author: Katherine E. Stoner

name: Steev

average rating: 5.00

book published: 2005

rating: 5

read at: 2010/05/17

date added: 2010/06/17

shelves: own-it, spirit-self

The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way

The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way

author: Hillary Rettig

name: Steev

average rating: 4.17

book published: 2006

rating: 5

read at: 2010/06/14

date added: 2010/06/17

shelves: politics, spirit-self

Learning About Telling Stories From Music Videos

The Not On The Wires blog, peopled by a group of young multimedia reporters, comments on the way storytelling in a now-famous music video can inform how modern journalists do their jobs.

when I heard that Gaga’s latest video was directed by a Steven Klein, a leading photojournalist, I couldn’t wait to see how this photojournalistic approach to composition and style would translate into the moving images of a music video.

Alejandro is 8:43 of painstakingly lit shooting. It may not be to your musical tastes, but there’s no denying the magnetic appeal of this carefully composed and considered piece of video: Read more>>>