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I’ve been reading Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction bit by bit for the last few weeks, but I realized today as I sat down to read the last couple of chapters that I’ve never included it in a Yarn Along … Continue reading
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The Things I Do For You People: Thoughts on Diana Gabaldon’s A Plague of Zombies
Diana Gabaldon’s Lord John books serve a number of purposes in the Outlander world, none of which are especially important. First, they fill in backstory about what happened in Gabaldon’s universe during the twenty years that are missing from the … Continue reading
Yarn Along
This picture is so orange it practically contains Vitamin C. I’m still enjoying the scarf I’m making with the leftover orange yarn, though I’ll have to buy some more yarn soon. I love when fancy camera tricks (performed unintentionally, at … Continue reading
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Read-All-Day Friday
No, I didn’t actually spend the whole day reading while facing the setting sun. That would be impossible outside of some environmental dystopian sci-fi novel, and I don’t live in an environmental dystopian sci-fi novel (not yet anyway). This photo … Continue reading
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I’m meandering my way through several books at once, as usual, but my top priority right now is to finish The Merchant of Venice. It’s such a tight, efficient play. I remembered Act II as really long, mainly because it … Continue reading
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Reading on Muni
I only read a few paragraphs. It’s hard to read when a couple rows ahead of you there’s a guy with four prescription bottles that he’s trying to balance in his two cupped hands while also periodically opening one and … Continue reading
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Something There Is That Doesn’t Love a (Big, Beautiful) Wall
The “something” in the first line of Frost’s “Mending Wall” is the physical world. To be specific, it’s a phenomenon that shares the poet’s name: frost heaving. A native San Franciscan like me, Frost would have seen frost heaving in … Continue reading
Early Thoughts on David Denby’s Lit Up and on High School English in General
I’ve read almost nothing this week. I’ve been scrambling to finish some freelance jobs and other side work (bacon must be brought home, and so forth – preferably organic bacon), and I have several blog posts in progress, all of … Continue reading
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Somehow or other, I’ve squeezed in two chapters of David Denby’s Lit Up this week. I’m pretty sure it was at one in the morning. It’s fantastic. I read the first page and wanted to run downstairs (again, at one … Continue reading
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Yep – Still Tired
I had such high hopes for my blogging life this weekend. Even when I was driving home last night at 10:30, dead tired, plotting my Goodnight Moon book-review evasion tactic, I was planning to write a little parody poem, something … Continue reading
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Postcards From Purgatory 