Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival

It's time for Sunday Snippets over at RAnn's blog!  I've found some wonderful Catholic blogs here.  How about sharing yours?

Semper Gaudete! : Not My Usual Sunday

Semper Gaudete! : The Greatest Woman Who Ever Lived??? NO!!!!! The Greatest Woman Who Ever Lived.... YES!!!!!

Semper Gaudete! : New Fanfiction.net Category

Semper Gaudete! : Fan Fiction and Originality

Semper Gaudete! : I Still Have It

Semper Gaudete! : Where Silence is Not Golden « The Gospel in the Digital Age

Semper Gaudete! : Cigar

Semper Gaudete! : This Week's Fan Fiction

Semper Gaudete! : Books Read in The Past Week

Books Read in The Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

Books are grouped by author
and not necessarily in the order read.

The Sunday Books section will return next week.

Bible books read this week:

"Isaiah"
"The Gospel According to Matthew"

"Anne of Ingleside"
{carried over from last week}
"Rainbow Valley"

by L. M. Montgomery

[fiction]

"Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U. S. Women's

Clubs, 1880-1920" #

by Anne Ruggles Gere

{carried over from last week}

"love, annie"

{carried over from last week}

"just jazz"
"storm rising"

by Dandi Daley Mackall

[children's fiction, Christian (Protestant, no denomination specified), "Blog On" series]
(Google books, replacing the physical copies lost when I moved)
It seems rather appropriate to read books about blogging online! :)

"A Summer's Lease"
by Marilyn Sachs
[children's fiction (older children)]
{carrying over into next week}

This Week's Fan Fiction

Josie's Revenge

an Another World sillyfic

After So Many Years

a Betsy-Tacy story

Unsuited to Each Other
Chapter 3 is now up

Cigar

I''d like to share an incident I witnessed years ago.  

There was a luncheonette in my neighborhood where I often ate.  Everyone on the staff was polite to me.   The waitress brought my toast cut and buttered, no questions asked.

One morning I went there for breakfast.  The area I sat in had two tables

next to each other.  At the table in front of me sat a woman and a baby in a highchair.   At the table next to theirs sat a man whose breakfast (which included eggs sunnyside up) had already been served.

The man lit a cigar, even though we were in a nonsmoking section.

"Excuse me," the woman said, "but this is a nonsmoking area."

"So?" the guy asked.

"So please put out your cigar.  The smoke is bothering my baby."

I'll never forget what happened next, what that jerk did.

"Oh, yeah?" he said...

 and then he BLEW THE SMOKE INTO THE BABY'S FACE!!!!

The mother stood up, and seconds later that creep was WEARING

his breakfast!

Good for that mother!

Where Silence is Not Golden « The Gospel in the Digital Age

Where Silence is Not Golden « The Gospel in the Digital Age

I had to share this!

I Still Have It

By "it" I mean that cold that came on Saturday.  But, thank God I haven't had stomach cramps this time, and thank God I have plenty of chicken broth!

Fan Fiction and Originality

There are people... including some fan fiction writers... who say that works of fan fiction are not original, because the writers thereof are building on someone else's material.

Well, I do not agree with this. Yes, we are using material originated by others, but we are using it in a new way. 

If I were to design and sew a dress (not very likely), it would be

an original work, even though I did not weave the material myself.

The way I see, originality isn't so much using new material as it is using the material at hand in a new way, and adding a few personal touches.