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A Review of Benjamin Lorr’s Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga (by Bethany)
I was the kid who watched Annie and wished I was an orphan. Even now, reading a book about Scientology makes me itch to sign a billion-year contract, and a documentary about the FLDS will send me off to … Continue reading
Yarn Along
It’s true. I started a new project before I finished the orange cowl, in spite of certain promises I may have made about finishing that project. But this weekend I was reminded of how much I love making simple … Continue reading
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I Think I Can, I Think I Can: The Numbers Challenge Comes to an Unexpected October Standstill (by Bethany)
I’m reading This Side of Paradise, which was my September book for the Numbers Challenge. After that, I will read Ceremony, which was my August book, and maybe then Jill will let me have my October number and my November … Continue reading
A Review of Lily King’s Father of the Rain (by Bethany)
I don’t seek out fiction about dysfunctional families as actively as I used to, but I still consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of the genre. Lily King’s Father of the Rain is in some ways very typical of this … Continue reading
Sic Transit Gloria Ender: A Review of Orson Scott Card’s Children of the Mind (by Bethany)
I read most of Orson Scott Card’s Ender books in the spring of 2013, which was a slow period in my blogging life. I wanted to hit a reading goal that I had set for myself (I didn’t make it), … Continue reading
A Review of Ann Napolitano’s A Good Hard Look (by Bethany)
The inclusion of Flannery O’Connor as a character ought to be enough to blah-proof any novel, wouldn’t you think? Ann Napolitano’s A Good Hard Look has been sitting on my shelf for a couple of years like a reserve … Continue reading
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Ceci N’est Pas Un Yarn Along Photo (by Bethany)
Don’t look now but I totally found a loophole in the rule about the orange cowl that I set for myself last week. I promised that I would finish the cowl before my next Yarn Along photo. The orange cowl … Continue reading
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Yarn Along
This picture of the orange cowl comes with a promise: I will finish it by the time I take my next Yarn Along photo. I know – I don’t have a whole lot of street cred when it comes to … Continue reading
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A Review of John Durant’s The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health (by Bethany)
I read this book not because I’m planning to go on the Paleo diet but because I thought (correctly) that it would affirm my general belief that the world has been screwy since the Industrial Revolution. (The world was screwy before … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 