I am an evil genius

I decided that to make up for my slacking over the break, I'm going to use the hours and hours of reading I need to catch up on this week as a read-a-thon fundraiser for the MS Walk. I hope we get TONS more reading to do this week. Mua ha ha. (I posted about this in my blog, just thought it'd tickle you guys.)

Sorry to wish more reading upon the masses.

Anyone else feeling like they are barely skimming the surface of Heart of Darkness?

Likeable Casaubon?

Hello all,

I'm trying to recall where it is that the narrator of Middlemarch basically says that Casaubon is basically just like us in his flights of fancy and ego. He isn't one of the characters I'm looking at, but I want to use the quote in my essay. We read this passage in class, but I don't have my notes with me this weekend and I'm going nuts trying to find that bit.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about and where to find it? I don't remember any of the exact language so searches online haven't helped.

ETA: Okay, I found it on page 54 :)

Caution! MLA 2009 Updated!!!

I went online today and found out that MLA updated the way we do our work cited page.

1. No More Underlining! Underlining is no more.

2. No More URLs!

AND...

For BOOKS it'll look like this:

Carré, John le. The Tailor of Panama. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,1996. Print.

(I can't indent the line but the indent rule still remains the same)

Other changes please consult--

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/

Peer Review Group for Essay??

Hey y'all...

With our second paper due the Wednesday we come back from spring break, I thought it might be a good idea for some of us to get together before then and peer-review our papers. I can't speak for everyone, but I'm not getting the same grade I got on the first one again!! Plus, it would force us to get them done before Tuesday night...but I digress.

Depending on how many people wanted to do this, we could do one-way trades or bring several copies of our essays for multiple people to read. It's up to you. It would also be helpful to bring Hurley's comments from your first paper so that we won't commit those sins ever again.
A meeting place can be decided on later.

So, any takers?

Middlemarch

Does anyone else find the saintly Dorothea an incredibly rude snob? I've disliked her character from the start. She criticizes her sister for wanting to wear their mother's jewelry and calls the puppy Sir James tries to give her "parasitic." Whe she sees the portrait of Julia-Will's grandmother and Mr. Casaubon's aunt-she says Julia has a "peculiar" face. She has an incredible knack for belittleling everybody else's interests or hobbies because they not self-sacraficing enough.

Okay, I'm done. I'm only half-way through the book. I rented the BBC adaptation which helped make the story arcs clearer.

Study Group--Novels

Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anyone wants to get together to discuss Middlemarch? (Since it's not an easy novel to go over, I think a study group might help) I'm thinking about doing the study group this weekend or the beginning of spring break if that'll work better. Any ideas?