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The Culture Enthusiast

Big Pile of Books

Books 12:37 PM
I was on a used bookstore shopping spree recently so I have a lot of books I plan to read this Fall. Or at least that I plan to carry around with me when I'm going for a chai latte at Starbucks. This post is part of The Broke and Bookish Top Ten Tuesday meme. Today is Top 10 Books on my Fall TBR...

Oedipus Rex paintings

Art 4:59 PM
detail - info below Oedipus and the Sphinx (1808 - 25) by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres  via the Louvre  "Listen to me and learn some peace of mind: no skill in the world, nothing human can penetrate the future." Oedipus and the Sphinx by François-Xavier Fabre via A Classic a Day  "If you are the man he says you are, believe me, you were born for pain." ...

We are all Castaways:
Review of the film Moon

Books 2:12 PM
via Stuff Point In the last couple of years lots of big blockbuster movies came out that were set in space: Gravity, Interstellar, The Martian. I don't mean to be controversial, but as a fan of realistic sci-fi movies, I thought these movies were all flash and little substance. Even Interstellar, which I liked, was a bit hard to sit through. As this...

All about Audio
Top 10 Audio books and Podcasts

Books 8:00 AM
photo by Corey Blaz Top 10 Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I started listening to audio books on my freshman year in college. I had a long commute and an even longer reading list. Between work and classes, I had very little time and knew I had to step up my game if I wanted to cross off every...

The comeback

Uncategorized 8:24 PM
Photo by Patrick Tomasso Oh, hello.  I feel like you caught me visiting an old house I own but no longer live in. The property is wrecked and desolate and I can see your look of disapproval: “Why didn’t you take care of the place?”  I know. The posts are all dusty, the content stagnated, ancient pictures all over the place. Many bloggers...

Something New by P. G. Wodehouse

Books 8:09 AM
source Hey guys, please forgive my absence. I don’t have a great reason for being gone that long, it was mostly because of work. And partly because of winter. Anyways, I’m back and eager to share my latest obsession: P. G. Wodehouse. But let’s start from the beginning. Back in December, I read a million books just to finish my 2013 to-be-read list....