Little Thoughts About Books and Stuff

I was cleaning out my gmail when I came across and email I sent to myself that contained a partial line from Jane's Juveniliastory Catharine or the Bower. ...for what after all is Youth and Beauty? Why in fact, it is nothing more than being Young and Handsome - and that It is a poor substitute for real worth & Merit; I think it's great that we have examples of writing by any author that shows the changes they make to works while they are in the process of writing them. I happen to like the line she crossed out and wonder what her reasoning was for crossing it out.

I was going through files on my computer and found a word doc with this quote. I don't know why I kept it, but I really like it. …some things are just meant to be: Sid will always find Nancy, Tom will always hook up with Roseanne and Ted (truly a reprobate case) will manage to be involved, in tandem, with both Sylvia and another woman who died with her head in the oven, F. Scott will always recognize his Zelda, Samson will always fall for Delilah, and Jason would wed Medea all over again, even if he were fully apprised of their marriage’s macabre denouement. Do I detect a pattern? --Prozac Nation --Good Morning Heartache/245

I posted this over on the CNJ-JASNA blog and felt I should share it too since I used this quote all over on Saturday. Happy New Year! Giving Credit Where Credit is Due : On Saturday I posted this quote: Bringing in a New Year is all about second chances. This year, we vow, we will do it right. We have a second chance to take better care of ourselves. We have a second chance to be kinder, wiser, and better human beings. For the life of me I couldn't figure out where I had found this post at and was getting mad at myself for not being about to find the source. I posted it any way and also commented that I couldn't find where I had found it, well I am sad to admit that on the last day of 2011 the Librarian Force (very similar to the Jedi Force but geared towards Librarian-esque powers) was not strong with me. A friend found the information and only after I saw her reply to me did I realize that I had the source information in my grasp the whole time and just didn't reali...