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Gimbling in the Wabe – The Tigers in This Picture

Published on : 4 November, 20164 November, 2016 Published by : Sharon Browning

A Rant About Clickbait of All Shapes and Sizes on Facebook (and Other Social Media Platforms) * ~ * ~ * There Are TWO Tigers In This Picture, Can You Spot The Second One? 99% of Viewers Can’t! (WordPorn.com) I have a friend on Facebook; he’s a very nice […]

Gimbling in the Wabe – What We Choose

Published on : 3 October, 20142 October, 2014 Published by : Sharon Browning

So I was tooling around on Facebook last night – something I do far too often – and I was getting pissed. I know that I’ve pretty much created my Facebook feed by liking certain posts and following certain pages, so what shows up has been geared to what I’ve […]

On this day, November 24, in 1961, writer and activist Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Assam, India. In 1997, her semi-autobiographical debut novel, The God of Small Things, won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and her second novel, 2017’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, was long listed for the Man Booker Prize and nominated as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. But it is her political activism on behalf of human rights and environmental causes that landed her on Time Magazine’s 2014 list of most influential people in the world. She has also been awarded the Lannan Foundation’s Cultural Freedom Award, the Sydney Peace Prize, and the Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing. Today she turns 59.

On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.

Gimbling in the Wabe – The Tigers in This Picture

Gimbling in the Wabe – What We Choose

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