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Monthly Archives: March 2014
A Review of Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
My first undergrad creative writing professor told us never to write ‘bathtub stories.’ A bathtub story, she said, was a story in which the protagonist is in some kind of static location – like a bathtub – recollecting all the … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Fiction - general, Mohsin Hamid, Reviews by Bethany
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Progress Report on Kim Harrison’s The Undead Pool
Thanks to a poorly timed nap this afternoon, I have less than a hundred pages to go in the latest Kim Harrison book, The Undead Pool, and I still have to exercise and go to bed at a reasonable hour … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction - Fantasy, Fiction - general, Fiction - Vampire Porn, Kim Harrison, Reviews by Jill
Tagged Kim Harrison, The Hollows
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Yarn Along
I sort of hit a knitting wall this weekend. I have one child’s-sized sweater all pieced (the one in the photo) and another one ready to piece, but lately I have not been happy at all with the way the … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings
If this were 2012 or 2013, I would not be writing a review of this book. Back then, I was reading at a ridiculously rapid pace and only reviewing between a half and three quarters of what I read. I … Continue reading
Some Brief Thoughts from Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
I had hoped to be finished with A Room of One’s Own by now, and I was going to write about Woolf’s manifesto side by side with Alice Munro’s story “The Office.” But it’s well past dinner and I still … Continue reading
How Yosemite saved my life (and then tried to kill me last week)
As I mentioned, last weekend I went to Yosemite National Park. I go at the same time every year for a veterinary conference. It doesn’t matter who is speaking. In fact, it could be the most boring topic on earth … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 