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My Uneasy Truce with the F Word
A book blog called the Classics Club is sponsoring a challenge each month in 2014. I missed January and February, but I’m planning to start participating in each challenging beginning this month. The idea is that each month has a … Continue reading →
True confessions Thursday: embarrassing but true facts about my reading life.
The idea for this post was born a few minutes ago when I was thinking that though I had a lovely day today, I never had a chance to pick up my book and read, and that, to me, is … Continue reading →
Exhausted
I just got home from the last day of my four-day writing workshop, and this time I don’t even have any bookstore photos or vague generalizations about my native city to share with you. I am spent – in a … Continue reading →
My New Favorite Bookstore
I am taking an intensive four-day class on narrative writing. Today was Day 2. Yesterday I had to leave early because I wasn’t able to get off work in the afternoon, but today, tomorrow, and Sunday I’ll be there all … Continue reading →
The post I can’t believe I made it all the way to February 20th before writing
Today was one of those days that didn’t work out quite as planned for me. My plan was to get up early (and by early on my weekend I mean not earlier than 8am), eat breakfast, finish Into the Woods, … Continue reading →
Russell Edson’s “The Mouse Dinners”: Still Revolting After All These Years
In high school, Jill and I had the same English teacher for three out of the four years. Sophomore year was the exception: I had Mr. Bjorkquist and she had Mr. Barmore. Both were good teachers – in fact, come … Continue reading →
What? I’m Not Late! I’m Just Early for Next PAT CONROY MONTH!: Final Thoughts on The Lords of Discipline
I’ve only been to Charleston, SC once, and I found it disappointing. Fort Sumter was beautiful under some August thunderheads, but the museum there was unexceptional. I was in the city for a whole day and have no memory of … Continue reading →
Thoughts on E.L. Konigsburg’s A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
I read A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (otherwise known on my to-do list as A Proud Taste for S&M) last summer when I was trying to give myself an introductory course in what’s been published in the world … Continue reading →
My First Christmas in Domestic Servitude (by Bethany)
McDonald’s received some bad press in the weeks before Christmas for the callous way it treats its minimum-wage employees. First, workers reported that McDonald’s handed out brochures advertising a financial counseling “hotline” that connected callers not with a human being … Continue reading →
I Will Not Be Afraid of John Milton. I Will Not Be Afraid of John Milton: Pre-Reading Notes on (Gulp!) Paradise Lost (by Bethany)
This time I have a good reason for not finishing a book in high school. Really, I do. In mid-March of my senior year in high school, I got the chicken pox. Adult chicken pox. It was the sickest I … Continue reading →
Postcards From Purgatory 