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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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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
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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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
Yarn Along
This photo is a little chaotic-looking. I planned it that way on purpose to reflect what the inside of my brain looks like these days. I am trying really hard to read only one book at a time, which is … Continue reading
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A Review of Paolo Giordano’s The Solitude of Prime Numbers (by Bethany)
This is a light, easy, compelling read – much lighter and easier than one might expect from an author with a Ph.D in physics. While the number symbolism (in the title and occasionally elsewhere) is my least favorite part of … Continue reading
Yarn Along
One of the highlights of my holiday season was when I found out that The West Wing has a seventh season. I thought the series ended after Season 6, and I was watching season 6 with some trepidation because none of … Continue reading
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New Year, New (Disappointing) Book about Priests in Space: A Review of Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things (by Bethany)
I love a good book about priests in space. Though I am willing to interpret this genre loosely (more on this in a moment), its epitome is Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow, which is about a Jesuit mission into outer … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 