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Monthly Archives: May 2014
Reading Challenge Announcement!
Bethany and I will one day finish the AP English Challenge, we swear. But we’ve been talking about what to do as our next book-reading challenge for a while now and I initially thought of picking one book a month … Continue reading
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The Frou-Frou Diaries (and a Threesome!): Thoughts on Parts One and Two of Anna Karenina (by Bethany)
I’ll start with the obvious: this novel is wonderful, truly one of the greatest novels ever written. It occurs to me as I write this that when I made a list of my fifteen favorite novels about a year and … Continue reading
Shortest Yarn Along Ever
Tank sweater #2. Green. Worked on it a lot this weekend, not so much this week. Anna Karenina. Still so beautiful, so shrewd. Lousy photo. Bad light. But see what I did with the portrait on the cover? Blotted out … Continue reading
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A Review of Robert Stone’s Death of the Black-Haired Girl (by Bethany)
Over the past few years I’ve slowly become aware of Robert Stone. I think it might have been the summer of 2010 that a copy of his novel Dog Soldiers made its way to my bookcase, probably by way of … Continue reading
Early thoughts on Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries
The first time I saw this book in real life I already knew it had won the 2013 Man Booker Prize and had read a bit about it. It sounded excellent. And then I met it in all its … Continue reading
Thoughts on Karen Joy Fowler’s We are all completely beside ourselves, with a digression into my undergraduate life.
I have read a couple of Karen Joy Fowlers’s earlier books, The Sweetheart Season and The Jane Austen Book Club, both of which I enjoyed, but didn’t love. I liked The Sweetheart Season because it reminded me of the movie … Continue reading
Yarn Along
Here’s the completed neckband for Palm Desert Winter Sweater #2. It’s a dark green – kind of a pine color – with stripes in a light green that we’ll call, I don’t know, “caterpillar”? That’s a really strange name for … Continue reading
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A Review of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch
What a fascinating enigma this book is. It’s almost eight hundred pages long. Its first-person narrator and its plot are compelling. It’s at times unspeakably sad. It’s not especially well written. It’s about art and growing up and friendship and … Continue reading
A review of Louise Erdrich’s The Round House
I was first introduced to Louise Erdrich in 2010, thanks to my boss. She was absolutely horrified when I told her I had never heard of Erdrich so she brought me several of her books. At first I was reluctant—who … Continue reading
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I’m not really reading The Catcher in the Rye. I’m still reading The Goldfinch, and for now I seem to have conquered my serial book reading habit, because I am truly reading The Goldfinch, just The Goldfinch, and nothing but … Continue reading
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Postcards From Purgatory 