Friday, 11 of May , 2007 @ 9:33 pm
Tags: Psychology, Psychology Today, Psychology of Blogging, Jessica Cutler
Psychology Today is less academic than journal articles, but they’re basically the same- minus the citations and the formal jargon. They’re far more reliable than popular magazines, who cite psychologists and their research on their articles (written solely for entertainment purposes) to make them look credible. In PT’s current issue, an article entitled called “The Decline and Fall of The Private Self” by Carlin Flora talks about tell-all blogging, and what psychological research says about its effects on our psyche.
It features Jessica Cutler, a former congressional staff assistant who blogged about her raunchy sex life, got linked to a heavy traffic blog, was fired from her job in the Senate and ultimately posed nude of Playboy. Another blogger, Eric Schaeffer of icantbelieveimstillsingle.com, writes unabashedly about his dating mishaps and his preferences for younger women. Which reminds me of a professor I had who gives excruciatingly detailed accounts about his sex life in his blog. Ha.
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Tuesday, 8 of May , 2007 @ 9:25 am
Tags: The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck, books
Today, I decided to blow my allowance on a book from the tiangge (bazaar) along AS Walk. For those who don’t know yet, there are stalls along AS Walk selling really good books - some second-hand, some brand new, some are very difficult to find in a bookstore - for a fraction (and I do mean a fraction) of the price. This isn’t something I normally do because I’m not an avid reader. That’s my sister’s thing. Because of dyslexia, I had a hard time reading when I was growing up. Even up to this day, I still have dyslexic tendencies (like how I just typed in “tencendies”), which makes reading for long periods of time difficult.
I ended up buying Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth for Php 100, thinking it was the English translation of the Chinese novel that Suikoden (my favorite RPG) is based on. Turns out it isn’t (All Men are Brothers is the title, also by Pearl S. Buck). But I quite like The Good Earth anyway since it’s in the genre I particularly enjoy. When I do manage to get my letters in the right order, most of the books I find engaging are non-fiction and historical novels, set in some period in the past. I get kind of bored with books set in present time.
Apparently, high school sophomores in my high school are required to read The Good Earth for English class. Ha ha, we never had that in my other high school. My friend said she didn’t like the book, though. She said it was “all about concubines”. Tsk, spoiler.
It would be nice if you could recommend a nice historical/ non-fiction novel for me to read :o)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEI! :o)
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