In Foster, Envoi I noticed this passage:
I enjoyed the ending of Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor.  I admire that he admits to not knowing everything about literature.  It shows that there is always more to learn.  Also, I like that even in the last, kind of farewell …

In Collins, The Hunger Games (18-27) I noticed this passage:
“Out of the corner of my eye, I see Peeta extend his hand. I look at him, unsure. ‘One more time? For the audience?’ he says. His voice isn’t angry. It’s hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread …

In Collins, The Hunger Games (10-17) I noticed this passage:
“‘I don’t know how to say it exactly. Only… I want to die as myself. Does that make any sense?’ he asks. I shake my head. How could he die as anyone but himself? ‘I don’t want them to change me in …

I think constructive criticism is very important and useful.  I feel that in order to make a paper better, you need someone else to tear it apart and offer ideas and advice.  I can not stand why people simply write “your paper is really good!”  Thanks for the compliment, but what …

In Foster, 26 I noticed this passage:
“That’s the irony–take our expectations and upend them, make them work against us.  You can pretty much do this with anything.  Spring comes and the wasteland doesn’t even notive.  Your heroine is murdered at dinner with the villian, during a toast in her honor …

In Collins, The Hunger Games (1-9) I noticed this passage:
“Prim is screaming hysterically behind me. She’s wrapped her skinny arms around me like a vice. ‘No, Katniss! No! You can’t go!’ ‘Prim, let go,’ I say harshly, because this is upsetting me and I don’t want to cry.  When they televise …

I loved the Poetry Slam!  Since everyone is extremely busy with the end of the semester quickly approaching, it was a much-needed break from the normal routine.  It was a pleasure listening to and observing my classmates creativity. 
Since I chose a very serious poem (“Facing It” by Yusef Komunyakaa) I …

In Miller, Resurrection Blues I noticed this passage:
“SKIP: A lot like Nepal–the Ivory Soap shoot.
EMILY: LIke Kenya too, maybe… Chevy Malibu
SKIP: The Caucasus, too.
EMILY: Caucasus?
SKIP: Head and Shoulders.
EMILY: Wasn’t that Venezuela?
SKIP: Venezuela was Jeep.
EMILY: Right! –No!–Jeep was the Himalayas.
SKIP: Himalayas was Alka Seltzer, dear.
EMILY: Oh right, that gorgeous bubbling fountain.
SKIP: …

In Heller, Catch-22 (31-42) page 415 I noticed this passage:
“He was certain he had witnessed that same horrible scene sometime before. Deja vu?”
This isn’t the first time that Heller had mentioned deja vu in Catch-22.  With all of the repetition of characters’ lines and even scenes in the novel, I sometimes …