Foreword

My name is Sarah and I was an English minor, much to my father's disappointment. He wanted, and still wants, me to be a literary critic. He seems to think I have a natural gift for criticism. I love literature, but struggled to get through my upper level college classes. Here's the problem: I want to read what interests me, discuss it, and not have to put that discussion in MLA format by the end of the semester. I enjoy learning for the sake of learning. I also have a problem with the concept of criticism as a field. Mainly the part where people get PhD's in order to write editorials about dead authors, expecting to change the popular conception of the piece. Because criticism is opinion— highly educated opinion, but still.

To clarify, I am not cynical of literature, just criticism. But because of my tendency toward it, regardless of my refusal to pursue it, I find I am in need of an outlet. And where better to air my opinion than the internet? Everyone else is doing it...

What you can expect:

Very little research. I'll try to make dates accurate and give an idea of where I came by facts, but I promise nothing.

Eclectic genres. When I have time to read something classic, it'll make an appearance, but anything I see, watch, or hear is fair game.

Tangents. I never really liked trig enough to let the concept soak in. If you don't get it, prepare for trouble in the future.

Logic leaps. See tangents. Though to be fair, I try to explain, but my explanations don't always break down the leap enough.

Thinly veiled attempts at wit. See above.

Literary and movie allusions without source reference. Be prepeared.

Good grammar and vocabulary.

Not so good punctuation. Every time I go into a book store I think about buying a book on punctuation, but I am usually waylaid by the Scifi section.

And now, I'll leave you with a few definitions.

Cynic- a person who believes that only selfishness motivates human actions and who disbelieves in or minimizes selfless acts or disinterested points of view
  -OR-

one of a sect of Greek philosophers (4th century bc) who advocated the doctrines that virtue is the only good, that the essence of virtue is self-control, and that surrender to any external influence is beneath human dignity. (dictionary.com)
  -Also- 
 a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision. (The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce)