Category Archives: Literature

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

Posted on Sun, 27 January 2013 by Chris Penningroth

This post has been gathering dust as a draft for seven months now.  It looks like now is a good time to dust it off and finish it, it may go some small way to explain some of the back-story … Continue reading →

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Withering Heath

Posted on Sat, 26 May 2012 by Chris Penningroth

No, it’s not a paragraph about The Hobbit.  It’s about one of my favorite literary characters to hate, Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights. I read Wuthering Heights two or three years ago.  Many of my friends had read it back in High School.  … Continue reading →

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Verily and Forsooth

Posted on Mon, 01 January 2007 by Chris Penningroth

    After piecing together a patchwork of time spanning about a year, I finally finished reading Cervantes’ masterpiece Don Quixote.  I found it lively and quite entertaining, and wish I’d had time to read it all at a stretch.      … Continue reading →

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A Rip in Heaven

Posted on Tue, 12 September 2006 by Chris Penningroth

    I took a little time to read A Rip in Heaven, by Jeanine Cummins.  Jeanine did a wonderful job relating the story of her family as they dealt with the assault and murder of her two cousins, Julie and … Continue reading →

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Crime and Punishment

Posted on Mon, 04 September 2006 by Chris Penningroth

    I finished reading Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment.  The villain went to jail, did his time, and married the woman who waited for him.       Did Raskolnikov think he had a Napoleon complex?     Next up:  Real Estate Investing … Continue reading →

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Blur

Posted on Sun, 27 August 2006 by Chris Penningroth

    A blur.  Yes, that’s a good word to describe the past week.  It’s been a lot of non-stop helter-skelter, hurry-scurry, running to-and-fro trying to tie up the little bits and pieces of life that underpin it and allow us … Continue reading →

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