I’m making slow progress through the various piles of books “decorating” our house these days. But I won’t apologize for taking over a week to finish Anne Enright’s The Gathering. Last year’s Man Booker winner,…
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I always, always, always have a book in my purse for filling up all those waiting minutes during the day and have done so for as far back as I can remember. It’s difficult for…
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I finished Donna Leon’s The Girl of His Dreams over the weekend — what an indulgence it is to escape into a well-written mystery, especially if it also offers the pleasures of imagining yourself in…
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It’s been a hectic two weeks, adjusting to the change-of-pace of the new term after the langourous pleasures of summer. I’ve been memorizing students’ names, writing up assignments and sending them off to the printshop,…
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Because I’m making my English 115 students read it, I’m re-reading Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter. It’s such a well-written piece of persuasion.…
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