Category: Books
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New Favorites
Happy Monday dear readers! I’m still getting out there and exercising, but I managed to mess up my sacrum when I had the baby and two metal water bottles in the frame backpack so this week I am splitting my time between hiking and walking. Let us note, this is the same injury from when…
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Thank You, Nancy Bush
Happy Friday Thursday, everyone! [Edited to add: Oops. Still only Thursday.] I hope you were all celebrating Banned Books Week. I sadly am not (bad librarian). Earlier in the year I broke out of my usual Everything as Long as it has to do With Victorians rut and tried out Vonnegut and Whitman. Do I…
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Late to the Game
Hello all and Happy 2013! I am fighting a cold, hence my late arrival in the ranks of bloggers summarizing the year past. No two ways about it, 2012 has a whopper. I adopted Melba. I bought a car. I got hearing aids. I got a new job. I moved into an apartment. Three friends…
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à la Austen
One of the true things that Andrew Clements said in The School Story (which would have been good had it not been for the ending’s nosedive into warm-fuzzydom) is that all writers begin as readers. I most certainly started out as a reader, and a voracious one, before becoming a writer. Even afterwards, reading is…
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Reading
This morning escaped me as I was sitting and rereading Daddy Longlegs. Seven fifty found me dashing out the front door with coat undone, throwing on my hat, scarf, and mittens as I went. Thank goodness ours is not a neighborhood where all the neighbors are out early. Waiting in the cold and black for…
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It’s Christmas Everywhere
Fa la la la fa la la lolly ting tingledy here and there. Blow music of trinkles and drinkles of glass it’s Christmas everywhere. Eloise at Christmastime, by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight
Anti-Quotidian 