Date:		3/1/2009 4:35:49 PM
From:		Eliopulos, Tina
To:		TAYLOR, MARITESS S
Subject:	RE: Modified Extra Credit ...

 

 REVIEW OF AN EVENT                                   
The Deconstruction of Beatrice Gray. By Prof. Richard Logsdon.
StoneGarden.net Publishing, SBN-13: 9781600760617
     Pub. Date: September 2008. $13.45 Barnes & Noble
     
I experienced a very interesting event of paradoxical proportion in[ON] the evening of February 13, 2009. Logic tells me to resort to reading a book about "Rome and Jerusalem" but I shrugged that thought away. This afternoon's reading of fiction could transpose my insatiable tastes for the unknown in travel and history channels. Not only did the gloomy and stormy weather outside that registered a freezing 30* contribute to the making of this review, but one can't help noticing the hoarse, gory sounding, and crackling speaking voice of Professor Richard Logsdon. There were a good number of folks from the English Department that attended the event. Professor Lee Barnes was the event's emcee.
My raw materials included a pencil, a notepad, and whatever phrase I could grasp to make this review worth the weather and fifty credits to boot. From my scribbles, I understand that there's a certain Pastor Jacob Gray from Pahrump what did not appreciate his family ties with the folks of the "Red Mansion" on top of the hill whose backyard is a large mystical forest.                   Professor Logsdon continued reading, and took the audience to a savage storm. Esther, the mother of the two sisters Beatrice and Sarah, decided to go for a stroll and had no clue of the coming storm. I felt an icy coldness as Beatrice suddenly disappeared from the group. Although this event is just literary constructs, I couldn't help feeling a certain doggedness since the reading was taking off in figurative language that seems to make these bloodcurdling scenes come alive. So, in time they found Beatrice. The girl told her mother that she was assisted by a tall woman, a beast with six legs to tote, and a tall man with sores on his face, named Mark. The reading ended in this section of the book.
Logsdon successfully lay[S] down his creditable[WC] style and that he wanted to bring in characters of conflict or with opposite views like those of Beatrice and her sister Sarah, a street evangelist. The author delivered an impact that detonates Calvinism, but the fearful Pastor Jacob Gray proved it otherwise. Altogether, this short story is a tangled mesh of underground asylum, catacombs, curses, priestess, and blood-thirsty goddesses. Professor Logsdon's work and his reading are quite urbane. What strikes one the most is this: does the author agree with his story?[AUTHORS CREATE; I'M NOT SURE THEY NEED TO AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THEIR CHARACTERS--OR AT LEAST EXPRESS THAT IN THE WORK.]  For the moment, my thoughts are pretty dark.
Maritess Sanchez Taylor
College of Southern Nevada
+50 POINTS. THANKS FOR TAKING TIME TO ATTEND THE EVENT. BEST, MS. E