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Monthly Archives: November 2014
In which Jill decides she really dislikes Theo Decker: Progress report on Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch
Since last posting, I’ve read about three hundred more pages of The Goldfinch. Thanksgiving preparations slowed me down quite a bit, despite having two long weekends in the past two weeks. The past couple of days I’ve had more free … Continue reading
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I read Richard Rodríguez’s Hunger of Memory as a freshman in college, and it affected me in that worldview-shattering way that books are supposed to affect one in college (at least until the kid across the hall gets a thyroid … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Part I of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch (by Jill)
Donna Tartt’s long-awaited third novel came out late in 2013 and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2014. I read her two earlier novels, The Secret History, and The Little Friend, years ago, and remember really enjoying them, … Continue reading
A Review of Bill Roorbach’s The Remedy for Love (by Bethany)
This book – the first of Roorbach’s that I’ve read – seems like a stage play that took a wrong turn in the Department of Genre Assignations (DGA) and ended up as a novel. This is not exactly a problem, … Continue reading
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I’m not reading all of the books in this photo, but I might as well be. My life for the last couple of weeks has been a chaotic mess of knitting, reading, writing, and hurting, with an emphasis on knitting … Continue reading
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Final Thoughts on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise (by Bethany)
As I’ve made clear before, I did not enjoy This Side of Paradise one bit. I was a little surprised, because I imagined that Fitzgerald was so adept with language that any book he might write would be worth reading … Continue reading
In which Jill reflects on twenty years “in the Blood” and reviews Anne Rice’s Prince Lestat
I finished Prince Lestat tonight. I should have finished it on Thursday but I had to take a nap or two that day. And last night I fell asleep with thirty pages to go. It’s not that I was bored, … Continue reading
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I’ve gotten a lot of work done on the child-size rollneck sweater I started last week. I’ve been watching the TV series The West Wing over again, start to finish, and the hours just fly by. I’ve finished the front, … Continue reading
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My New Favorite Bookstore is Actually a Cafe (by Bethany)
Warning: The problems I’m about to describe are first-world in nature. I have myself on a self-imposed deadline to finish a writing project by the end of the year, and almost every day this week I went straight to the … Continue reading
Progress Report on Anne Rice’s Prince Lestat (by Jill)
Remember how Anne Rice rediscovered Jesus and swore she would never write about vampires again? How long did that last? Eleven years? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I will go on whatever adventure Anne Rice … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 