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Yarn Along
I haven’t been doing much knitting lately. I do still care about this project, but I’ve been reading more than usual and also working on another craft – beadmaking – that sucks me into its web once a decade or … Continue reading
Posted in Hogarth Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Yarn Along
Tagged Hogarth Shakespeare
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Final Thoughts on George R.R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows (by Bethany)
Well, I finished it – and yes, it was entertaining at times. Unlike Outlander and other series, the books in A Song of Ice and Fire don’t vary much from one another in quality or in general mood. All of … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Fiction - Fantasy, Fiction - general, George R.R. Martin, Reviews by Bethany
Tagged book review, Game of Thrones
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The Poetics of George R.R. Martin: Further Thoughts on A Feast for Crows (by Bethany)
Pages read: 414 out of 978 I put this book aside a couple of months ago and have been reading other things, but this week I picked it up again and – big surprise! – it was just as violent … Continue reading
A Review of H.S. Cross’ Wilberforce (by Bethany)
I’ve already complained about the cold, impersonal way I became aware of this new novel: I had to encounter it on a shelf in Barnes and Noble, of all places. This is in spite of the fact that I subscribe … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Fiction - general, Fiction - literary, H.S. Cross, Reviews by Bethany
Tagged H.S. Cross, Wilberforce
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A Review of Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You (by Bethany)
This is a strange little book – ubiquitous in the circles I walk in (i.e. circles made up of Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Green Apple, and a half a dozen small local bookstores) and appearing often on shelves devoted to … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Celeste Ng, Fiction - general, Reviews by Bethany
Tagged 1970's, American fiction, book review, Everything I Never Told You, novels
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Another PAT CONROY MONTH!!!! Bites the Dust: Final Thoughts on South of Broad (by Bethany)
If it weren’t for this blog and its tradition of celebrating PAT CONROY every September, I would never have reread South of Broad. When I read it for the first time in 2009, I was highly attuned to its flaws. … Continue reading
Well, I made it before PAT CONROY MONTH!!!! was over…. A Review of Pat Conroy’s The Water is Wide (by Jill)
I started a progress report on The Water is Wide a little over a week ago, and shortly thereafter I actually started making solid progress on it and didn’t want to stop to write about it. I’ve been having my … Continue reading
“I Never Became a Woodcutter and I Have Had as Little to Do with Wood as Was Humanly Possible”: Some PAT CONROY MONTH!!!! Silliness for Your Friday Morning, Brought to You By the Numbers 19 and 92 (by Bethany)
I may have mentioned once or twice before that, among other quirks, my high school education was marked by not one but two opportunities to imitate PAT CONROY’s writing style in exchange for a grade. This probably shouldn’t have happened, … Continue reading
Posted in Glimpses into Real Life, Pat Conroy, PAT CONROY MONTH!
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Early Thoughts on South of Broad (by Bethany)
Pages read: 131 out of 512 Last year’s PAT CONROY MONTH!!! was not a high point for me as a blogger. I set out to read War and Peace, which is one of the novels Pat Conroy discusses in his … Continue reading
A Review of Jonathan Franzen’s Purity (by Bethany)
This novel is organized into seven long titled chapters. While it’s been years since I’ve thumbed through The Corrections and Freedom, I think this approach is standard for Franzen. I turned the pages of this novel readily from start to … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 