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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Final Thoughts on Isabel Allende’s Maya’s Notebook (by Jill)
I finished Maya’s Notebook Thursday night, and I was immediately annoyed with myself for writing so much in my progress report on Tuesday, because I don’t have much additional to say now. The two big surprises at the end of … Continue reading
Yarn Along
I almost skipped Yarn Along today. I’ve been having trouble sleeping, and when I came home exhausted last night I just didn’t feel up to taking a Yarn Along photo (which is not a difficult task, of course, but … Continue reading
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Progress report on Isabel Allende’s Maya’s Notebook (by Jill)
I think I will look back on the books I’ve read in the past six months and the main thing I’ll remember is this: bad things happen to teenagers who end up in Las Vegas. Very. Bad. Things. Remember … Continue reading
Some Brief Almost-Final Thoughts on We Are Not Ourselves (by Bethany)
It’s official. This is an Alzheimer’s book. I did not know it was an Alzheimer’s book before I read it; the book jacket hints but does not make this statement directly. I feel a little bit cheated. I’ve stayed away … Continue reading
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A Review of Dorothy Baker’s Cassandra at the Wedding (by Bethany)
( The New York Review of Books Classics Series really is a wonderful resource for people who like to read. If you’re not familiar with it, this is a series that resurrects high-quality books from all around the world that … Continue reading
Final thoughts on John Williams’ Stoner (by Jill)
I think Stoner is my favorite book of 2015 so far. Yes, I know I’ve only finished three books so far and am about a third of the way through my fourth. But one of my favorite books of 2014 … Continue reading
Thoughts on the First Third of Matthew Thomas’ We Are Not Ourselves (by Bethany)
I am reading several books at once, as I often do, but I am not feeling frantic and stressed about finishing them, as I sometimes do. Without that stressed feeling, reading lots of books at once is great. It’s like … Continue reading
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Final Thoughts on Veronica Roth’s Divergent (by Jill)
I love dystopian young adult fiction. Its major downside is that it doesn’t necessarily lend itself to intelligent discourse and discussion. I finished Divergent last Friday and have been trying to figure out what direction to take my review in … Continue reading
Yarn Along
If you think it looks as if I am still working on holiday knits, you’re right. These green and cream sweaters are going to be lovely when they’re done, but I’m ready to move on to something else. My schedule … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Wise Blood (by Bethany)
Flannery O’Connor died of lupus when she was thirty-nine, and here I two days after my thirty-ninth birthday, trying to channel her spirit enough to make some sense of Wise Blood. Several of O’Connor’s stories – “Good Country People,” “A … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 