Charles Dickens and Hard Times

Today is Dickens's 200th birthday, and we have another celebratory piece to mark the occasion, which tees off on the idea that we are living in the midst of hard times and Dickens is perhaps the greatest literary expounder of living in hard times.

My own interest in the man is sticking, and if I should ever finish book-blogging "1984" in my lifetime, I am thinking about taking on Dickens's work, especially since the text is freely available to be served up for our copypasta pleasure.

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Charles Dickens and Hard Times

Today is Dickens's 200th birthday, and we have another celebratory piece to mark the occasion, which tees off on the idea that we are living in the midst of hard times and Dickens is perhaps the greatest literary expounder of living in hard times.

My own interest in the man is sticking, and if I should ever finish book-blogging "1984" in my lifetime, I am thinking about taking on Dickens's work, especially since the text is freely available to be served up for our copypasta pleasure.

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Writer's Block: Human Nature

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Our best quality is human intelligence, of course. Our worst quality is that we are still stupid.

Writer's Block: Human Nature

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Our best quality is human intelligence, of course. Our worst quality is that we are still stupid.

Heavenly Body

A Victoria's Secret model has revealed she has turned her back on modelling lingerie as it clashes with her Christian beliefs.

Kylie Bisutti beat more than 10,000 hopefuls to win the Victoria's Secrets Model Search.

But after two years as a model for the company she says she has turned her back on showing off the sexy lingerie as she believes only her husband should see her body.

-- ONTD



But I thought we were suppose to show and share our gifts and talents, not hide them.

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Heavenly Body

A Victoria's Secret model has revealed she has turned her back on modelling lingerie as it clashes with her Christian beliefs.

Kylie Bisutti beat more than 10,000 hopefuls to win the Victoria's Secrets Model Search.

But after two years as a model for the company she says she has turned her back on showing off the sexy lingerie as she believes only her husband should see her body.

-- ONTD



But I thought we were suppose to show and share our gifts and talents, not hide them.

( Rest of the column )