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When Reading Connects

2014-03-09T11:32:31-04:00

These two jumped out at me because I have gotten the Spider Bathtub Rescue down to a science. Or, given the array of materials I keep on hand, perhaps it would be better described as an artform? Although it's particularly hard when they're very young spiders, the almost see-through kind:

When Reading Connects2014-03-09T11:32:31-04:00

Revisiting the Castle

2014-03-09T13:18:57-04:00

This is my second-last Shelf Discovery Challenge post and read. I deliberately chose both this and Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear to round things up because they were among the books that helped me shift away from kidlit and YA books to adult reading. The transition via

Revisiting the Castle2014-03-09T13:18:57-04:00

Anticipation and Hesitation

2014-03-09T13:16:33-04:00

Ethel Wilson's Love and Salt Water (1956) McClelland & Stewart, NCL 1990. The advantages of reading an author's works through are many; I love the sense of truly-getting-acquainted that comes with this reading immersion, the intense satisfaction of recognizing interconnections (and divergences) between stories and longer works, the sense of

Anticipation and Hesitation2014-03-09T13:16:33-04:00

Secrets = Complications

2014-03-09T13:14:38-04:00

I admit it: the first feeling that I had when I saw Laila Lalami's novel was relief, relief that it was obviously shorter than so many of the novels I wanted to read so quickly as part of the Orange Prize longlist reading I wanted to do. Not very propitious,

Secrets = Complications2014-03-09T13:14:38-04:00

My oh-so-flabby poetry muscle, Part Two

2014-03-09T13:11:34-04:00

So, you know how it is? When you've dropped an exercise routine? And you come up with all the reasons, and all of them good ones too, why you can't start it up again? And then you realize over a period of time, sometimes a long time, sometimes an embarrassingly

My oh-so-flabby poetry muscle, Part Two2014-03-09T13:11:34-04:00
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