SUPERFASTREADER:
The rules: Top twenty favourite books in no particular order. Don’t think about it for too long. Take twenty minutes only to compile your list. Bold the ones you’ve read, or reread, since you’ve started blogging. Include novels, non fiction and plays.1. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
SLUSHPILE: Getting books signed is a strange phenomenon. As an aspiring author, I think writers should be willing to sign damn near anything...
OF BOOKS AND BYCICLES: Another way I’ve found to deal with my reading funk, in addition to listening to P.D. James novels on audio, is visiting my local used bookstore. Inspired by Kate’s group reading of Anne of Green Gables, I went out to find a copy this afternoon (and, inspired by Emily’s Eco-justice Challenge, I walked!).
SO MANY BOOKS: I came home from work today to find a couple of books in the mailbox. One, June Jordan’s Affirmative Acts, I mooched from Andi. The other, The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol 1, I decided to splurge on with some of the birthday funds I received earlier in the month. Even [...]
WUTHERING EXPECTATIONS: With the important exception of Heinrich Heine, almost every major German-language writer in the next generation or two was a sort of regionalist. Jeremias Gotthelf and Gottfried Keller in Switzerland, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff in Westphalia, Edouard Mörike in Swabia, Adalbert Stifter in Austria, Theodor Storm in Schleswig-Holstein [...].
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