I'm a student pursuing a doctoral degree in late medieval history. My main interests include but are not limited to Latin, Italian, cultural theory, educational curriculum, historiography, cognitive processes, language-theory, gender relations and THE WESTERN CANON (mwahaha); i am not particularly interesting, avant-garde or risque; My main hobbies include the exciting activities of cooking, baking, going to the gym, eating green apple-caramel lollipops, restaurant reviewing and acting as child-like and sassy as possible. I keep these entries from the years of my life - no matter how i feel about them today - available because i find it useful to revisit events i now interpret differently. My name is heather, i'm of Montreal and i was born in the nefarious, ominous year 1984.

Travels in the Scriptorium: Book Review

Having recently read Auster’s Brooklyn Follies and enjoyed it quite a bit, i stole Travels in the Scriptorium: A Novel from Bryan’s bookshelf to read on the two-hour train from NYC to Baltimore.
I didn’t like it. At first, i was captivated by the post-modern “what’s going on here”-ness of the narrative. However, once i started [...]