Carolyn's Tumblings
2009
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2
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5
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5
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6
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17
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10
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19
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9
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3
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2
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2008
December
10
November
October
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1
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7
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9
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6
January
18
2007
December
33
November
18
October
23
September
26
August
14
July
27
June
20
May
27
April
8
March
5
February
January
Something tells me I should make more notes. And start the...
May 30th
Kindred
By Octavia Butler (1979) It often makes me feel guilty to speak ill of a book… but, well, what...
May 30th
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers, (1940) It’s a good novel. A good, American, multi-ethnic southern town...
May 27th
Read Kincaid's Lucy today.
(That’s a past-tense accomplishment as well as an imperative.) It’s fresh and lovely. ...
May 27th
House of Leaves
It might take me a while to actually assemble thoughts on this one, though I have various scattered...
May 25th
So, here’s how I’m doing on the books I have to...
May 25th
on Silent Spring
How wild is it that I got this far in life without ever reading Rachel Carson’s Silent...
May 20th
Books that Change Things
Wouldn’t it be fun to someday teach a class on Books that Changed the World? Books that...
May 20th
Thoughts on Cormac McCarthy's The Road
When I read my first McCarthy earlier this year, (The Orchard Keeper, his first novel, I believe),...
May 17th