BOOKED SOLID: Season's Readings
By Caitlin Kennedy | November 30, 2010As the holidays approach, it's time for students across the country to catch up on relaxation, sleep and drum roll, please pleasure reading.
As the holidays approach, it's time for students across the country to catch up on relaxation, sleep and drum roll, please pleasure reading.
On Thursday night, college students across the country will don festive attire and gather to celebrate our generation's most beloved book series, corrupted in movie form.
Courtesy of Joseph Mehling Courtesy of Joseph Mehling Watching the mainstage production of "Two Gentlemen of Verona" is like viewing a particularly excellent episode of "Glee" except live and Shakespearean style.
My favorite place to read at Dartmouth is not actually on campus. Lounging on the Green with a book is nice, of course, but when it comes to curling up on a cushy sofa with a great view and a good book, the Howe Library Hanover's charming and impressive public library has simply got campus beat.
In recent years, dozens of books both fiction and nonfiction have been released about the negative effects of bullying.
In the high-pressure world of higher education, where the reading load is basically infinite, students (and, erm, certain columnists) may not have time to read a book every week or if they do, they may not want to spend their previous free time further destroying their eyesight.
Thursday evening, the Hopkins Center offered the Dartmouth community an opportunity to see this week's performance of "A Prairie Home Companion" as a live HD broadcast in Spaulding Auditorium.
I read "I, Emma Freke" (2010) after a painful midterm, and I really couldn't have asked for a better way to get my mind off the fact that math and I are never going to get along.
Ian Minot the protagonist of Adam Langer's newest novel "The Thieves of Manhattan" is, to be blunt, annoying.
Feeling eco-neutral today? "No pressure," but if you don't agree to cut your carbon emissions by 10 percent in 2010, then the 10:10 global campaign is going to press a big red button of doom that will cause you and your fellow eco-abstainers cute children included to be blown to a bloody pulp.