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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