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A Review of Allegra Goodman’s Paradise Park (by Bethany)
There is no earthly reason for me to like this book. It’s a voice-heavy, first-person narrative with lots of interior monologue and a semi-picaresque plot and a protagonist who makes a lot of really stupid mistakes. Just to be clear, … 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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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
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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
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Today I finished the back of the child-sized sweater I started last week. The newly cast-on stitches in the photo are the beginning of one sleeve. The front of the sweater and the second sleeve will be a medium greyish-blue. … Continue reading
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A Review of Ian McEwan’s The Children Act (by Bethany)
This novel is a slow, tidy, and compelling third-person-limited study of an aging family court judge. Fiona Maye’s job requires her to make shrewd, compassionate, and ethically sound judgments involving the welfare of children. The title refers to a 1989 … Continue reading
A Review of (Among Other Things) John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (by Bethany)
I have a rule about books that involve dying children; that rule is DON’T READ THEM. The clichés, the dying requests – none of it can come to any good. I break this rule sometimes, of course – just often … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 