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Justin Tadlock on
October 26, 2006
I suppose I should try and write some kind of review of Richard Russo’s Empire Falls. But honestly, it’s hard to describe such a wonderful peace of fiction in a way that wouldn’t understate just how wonderful it is.
The first thing I have to mention is the characters. They are what this book [...]
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Justin Tadlock on
September 27, 2006
Making the Grade at a Top American High School
There are more and more books coming out each year that try and uncover what it means to be a public high school student today. Edward Humes does this beautifully, but he takes a different route. He goes into the heart of one of the nation’s [...]
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Justin Tadlock on
September 25, 2006
Every now and then a person comes along that inspires more than just a close-knit group of people around, they inspire the world, or at least a part of it. This person was Morrie.
I was surprised to see that this book was copyrighted in 1997. Nine years have gone by, and I haven’t read [...]
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Justin Tadlock on
September 14, 2006
Dan Brown. He’s the guy that finally got me interested in reading again. I picked up his The Da Vinci Code in the late summer after a two month break from reading any novels. He’s a thrill writer. He’s the kind of writer that makes you remember what reading is [...]
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Justin Tadlock on
August 16, 2006
Well, school has almost started. Less than eight hours from now I will be sitting in my first class. By the way, that motivation that I thought I had last night has now turned into mush. Really, I’m just tired. I had a really long day. Surely tomorrow things will [...]
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Justin Tadlock on
May 4, 2006
Okay, this is going to be a short post. I’m really tired, and once again, late for bed. I actually wasted 20 minutes or so out of my life tonight. Danny and I, while trying to get his new puppy (no name for it so far) and my cats (Oly and Smeagle) [...]
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Justin Tadlock on
May 2, 2006
Yes, you read that right. I’m 22 years old. I don’t feel much different, until I say that I’m 22. It feels kind of weird when I say it out loud. I think I may be getting old. I still feel like I’m 18, just with a world of [...]
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Justin Tadlock on
April 26, 2006
I wanted to post on some of the odd things that I’ve found at the library lately, but my roommate, who has my scanner hooked up to his computer, didn’t scan the stuff right. And I’m not going to go and edit each and every one of them until they are right. I [...]
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Justin Tadlock on
November 27, 2005
Another day gone by. Another late night. It’s definitely time for me to go to bed. I worked on my ethnography project for a couple of hours tonight, and I was completely ticked off by something I had forgotten to do. I had saved my work on the Peavy family online [...]
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Justin Tadlock on
November 22, 2005
I have decided to write in my little notepad my entries for my website. This way I can keep posting on the happenings of Thanksgiving week and then post them up when I get back to the luxury of my own home.
I didn’t really feel like writing much tonight simply because I feel totally drained, [...]
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