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Always the Abecedarian
I wasn't sure what Always the Abecedarian's domain, Learning Asigo, meant. It took me a while to realize that it was actually Learning As I Go, which will probably sum up the intentions of the author, whose name I seemed to miss (or maybe she was too busy to say it in her blog).
Scrolling across her sidebar, I realized that she is quite new to the blogging world. Her weblog is only two months old, barely even, but as I continued reading her entries, I realized that how long you've spent writing a journal doesn't measure how well you can, shall we say, intensify the emotions and the thoughts that has coursed in your body for that particular day, or that particular state of mind.
You will realize that the author is lesbian, and that she is very much proud of it. She succeeds in portraying the emotions of a lesbian heart with such grandeur and romance that it seems no different with heterosexual relationships.
Her writing style is very creative. Romantic, even. And if I may add, it's something only a few straight hearts can express. The author is quite modest proclaiming that she needs improvement when she is already quite good (and her blog is helping her practice writing, so hurray for blogging!).
One unique thing about her blog is that she doesn't use the first person as frequently as most personal blogs. Instead, she portrays her feelings with other characters, thus, this blog is also a collective of her short stories. These short stories are lesbian in nature, and somehow I'm reminded of Anne Rice's style of playing with words - and that is by making such good use of the technique of imagery. Access to these stories is made easy by placing links named "Literary Entries" in the sidebar.
Design-wise. This is a well designed Movable Type blog, thanks to her friend who helped her putting it up. It's simple and well organized, but it's neither boring or explosive. It's one of the jewels of Movable Type blogs, if you asked me.
Speaking of organization, it is a very orderly blog, with a clean entry layout and a very handy and suffecient sidebar containing her archive, her links and cliques.
All in all, I'd say this blog is a must-read. You do not need to be lesbian to enjoy the way she delivers her way of thinking. She is a very talented woman and I wish that the blog lives on. I've become envious on how vivid she can get with just mere words and some pictures as well. Hopefully this blog will teach other bloggers that you don't need to have such an exciting experience to have such interesting entries. It's how to input images on other people's brains with how you make use of your literary know-how... and that blogging will help you learn as you go.
This site was reviewed on 2004-02-20 by machi.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
machi felt that Always the Abecedarian deserved a rating of 5.
The first thing I did was go to my dictionary and look up the word Abecedarian. Funny that the definition is one who studies the alphabet or one who is just learning, a beginner and I am looking it up. Ok, maybe not that funny that I didn't know what it was and it said I was a beginner.
Anyways, I wasn't sure what to expect now that I had a definition for the word. Is this blog going to be about the daily life of someone contemplating the impact of the letter H on our society? Or was this going to be more along the lines of a life's lessons learned type blog in reference to the second definition? I had so many questions, but no answers, so I went on in.
When the page loads, there is an amazing design for the site. There is a wonderful banner of dried roses that set the mood and the color scheme for the site. I loved the design as it is very original. The only problem I had with the design is that the css loads the links all funky in Mozilla. To make sure it was just a browser thing, I opened up IE and the page looks better in IE. So she needs to fix the css problems and the site will look as good as it reads.
The site is amazing. From the very start I could tell that the author was well read. She has a way with words that just make you want to keep reading. She tells a story within her posts, I felt like I should be wrapped in a blanket next to a fire while reading this blog. To change things up she does have some "standard" blogger posts which are nice and give us yet another view point into her life.
Normally I would give you all kinds of details about the author of a blog. I don't think I could do her justice by trying to describe her. Sure I could pull random things out of her 100 things, or take certain parts from her posts and describe her to you, but part of the joy of this site was actually reading her and learning stuff about her. The only thing I will mention is that her occupation of a bookstore owner completely shines as I said she is well read.
I really enjoyed my time here. I only had one real problem with the site and it was the design issue I mentioned earlier. I couldn't justify giving the site a perfect 5 because I would have to put this on my weekly read list instead of my daily read. The reason for this is that she writes so well, it would be a shame to only read one day at a time. Imagine your favorite author only releasing 1-2 pages of a chapter at a time. You would rather enjoy the entire chapter than just a couple of pages. This site is a great read, and I recommend that everyone check it out.
This site was reviewed on 2004-02-20 by Brent.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
Brent felt that Always the Abecedarian deserved a rating of 4.
2 reviewers gave Always the Abecedarian an average rating of 4.5000
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