OHS Lads and Lasses:

Tis a fine Irish day, and I just want to take a break from talking about Dickens and A Tale of Two Cities to talk about another writer you may have heard of...that writer is James Joyce. Those of you in Ms Danielson's AP class may know about him because he used his trademark "Stream of Consciousness" style of writing in his novels. I believe Ms Danielson had her students try to write in "stream of conscious" style in one activity.

Joyce, an Irishman from Dublin, used this style in the famous novel Ulyssess.

Today, June 16, writing fans all over the world are celebrating "Bloomsday", a day that commemorates the day Leopold Bloom, the main character in Ulyssess, walked around Dublin making his observations. The book is very long, tough read. I've only known one person who's actually read the entire book!

If you want to read more about Bloomsday go to http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bloomsday.html

Happy Bloomsday!!