So this is me in the Simpsons world....I uploaded a photo of myself to the SimpsonizeMe image generator sponsored by Burger King in the buildup for the Simpsons movie. The image it generated looked nothing like me actually.....really short and curly black hair, a pointed nose, big round eyes...so I made some changes. I actually would love for my hair to look this groomed every day. :)And Librarything is cool. I like adding my own library, looking at others' libraries, seeing what suggestions it has for other books under the same tag. I like reading and talking about book recommendations so this site is really up my alley. I thought the UnSuggester was a little presumptuous...I mean, how does it know me and my likes/dislikes???? Maybe I like Shakespeare AND Stephen King! I put in one of my very favorite books, Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, and the fact that, indeed, I had none of the unsuggested titles in my library was quite beside the point, I thought. :)
Speaking of Shakespeare, I discovered Antony and Cleopatra last weekend....well, I guess I always knew Shakespeare had written such a play but I've never read or seen a production of it. Wow...this play has it all. Shakespeare was able to relay an important historical event in Western civilization, explore the tragic love story therein, and bring out some interesting ideas by playing the Roman structured male-centered world against the Egyptian female-dominated looser world. This West vs. East conflicts throughout the play as it shifts across the Mediterrean between Rome and Egypt and covers differences in the concepts of honor, gender roles, and success.....Shakespeare was quite a guy.
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