Tag Archives: literature

Retrospective.

Posted on Saturday, 31 December 2011 by

2011: What a long, strange trip it’s been. What can I say? I’m a sucker for symbolic milestones. Rather than put you through the torture of reviewing my year, I’ll share some of the best things I read on Ye Olde … Continue reading →

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Now, I’m not one to preach, but…

Posted on Friday, 3 June 2011 by

It’s time for another Friday Word of the Week. I started this topic to help myself learn more words and to give myself motivation to expand my reading and put more challenging authors into my reading circulation (Hello, Nabakov!). I … Continue reading →

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Beware of the Russians

Posted on Friday, 20 May 2011 by

As I look forward towards the next few homework-free months of summer, my thoughts very naturally go to my reading list. Really, it’s my reading shelf. Okay, shelves. It started out with a small section of one shelf devoted to the … Continue reading →

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Friday’s Word of the Week

Posted on Friday, 25 February 2011 by

One of the joys of reading is discovering that I still need the dictionary.  I seem to have a vocabulary that is large enough to handle most of the words that I encounter in my usual or typical reading material. … Continue reading →

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Review: The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Posted on Tuesday, 29 June 2010 by

(This is a copy of the review I posted on Amazon for The Help, which I read for a book club. I was not nearly as intrigued as the majority of reviews, as you will see. There were other issues … Continue reading →

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