Welcome to 2009! Now that the holidays are behind us our Question of the Week is back to its regular, um, weekly schedule.
So, since it’s Monday, there’s a brand new, freshly-baked question waiting for you.
Add comment January 5th, 2009
Welcome back to the DailyLit Question of the Week! Actually, this “week’s” question will really be for the entire month of December. Since we’re all so busy this time of year, we’ve decided to leave one question open during all four weeks of December so everyone will have a chance to share their thoughts.
Get the holidays started early and jump to our question.
1 comment December 1st, 2008
Our Question of the Week last week took a quote from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as our jumping-off point: “Every reader has his first book; I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first fascinates his imagination, and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind.” For Longfellow, that book was Geoffrey Crayon’s Sketch-Book by Washington Irving. We asked our readers: what was yours?
The responses were as varied and marvelous as our readers themselves: among the responders I found a young Sherlock Holmes fan and someone who was inspired by the key lessons about tolerance in The Color of Love. One reader still remembers wearing down batteries while reading The Hobbit by flashlight, while for another reader, Atticus Finch’s declaration that one should never lie to children has rung true for years. From Alice in Wonderland to Crime and Punishment, the different books that have had a profound impact on people form a fascinating list.
Diverse as they are, it seems to me there are two main threads: books that are strikingly imaginative and sparked our own imaginations, and books that very explicitly treat children as adults–I’m thinking here especially of Atticus’s line. We remember books that talked to us like grown-ups (or the first adult books we “got” as kids) and ones that encouraged us to leave our world for places of fancy that can only be found down the rabbit-hole or deep under the sea. I wonder if this all speaks to our desire to escape–somehow–from the awkwardness of being caught between childhood and adulthood. Or maybe not–either way, fascinating stuff. Anyone else care to give it the ol’ Freudian try?
Add comment November 18th, 2008
Welcome back to another work week! We’ve created another DailyLit Question of the Week that I think will really take you places. In the past few weeks the stories DailyLit Members have shared have been great–from joelsanda reading The Hobbit by flashlight to danahuff’s not-entirely-successful attempt to dress up as Ophelia (I hold that her colleagues’ failure to recognize her is due to their own shortcomings rather than any deficiency in the costume).
This week I’m wondering about journeys. And this journey starts, of course, with the JUMP to the Weekly Question!
Add comment November 17th, 2008
It’s the beginning of the week again, and that means you have a whole new chance to speak your mind with DailyLit’s Question of the Week. With last week’s political drama behind us, this week our question waxes introspective. Get ready to think deeply about “the one” after the jump below.
Today is also Veteran’s Day. Don’t forget to thank a veteran or an enlisted man or woman for their service to our country.
And, coming tomorrow–in-depth analysis (well, sort of) and the results (definitely) of last week’s Literary Election!
Ready…jump to this week’s question!
Add comment November 11th, 2008
I’m very excited to say that we just posted our first ever DailyLit Question of the Week. Each Monday we’ll ask a new question, and we’re hoping that all of our readers will share their responses.
So, without further ado, let’s have a drumroll please (………….lame drumroll, I know) and jump to the question!
Add comment October 13th, 2008
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