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2022 Books Read
Some re-reads this year, but a lot of new-to-me authors as well. New novels written by faves. Been a year of upheaval and transitions. I’ve managed to keep up my regular reading schedule. I just don’t feel right if I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Alfred Hitchcock, Anne Fadiman, art, Australia, Biography, books read, Canada, Christopher Hitchens, culture, Edmund Burke, Elinor Lipman, England, entertainment biography, essays, Eve Babitz, fiction, friends, Germany, Greece, history, Hitler, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Joseph Cornell, Lorrie Moore, Machiavelli, Master and Margarita, Memoirs, Michael Curtiz, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mitfords, nonfiction, novel, Paul Zindel, politics, Quentin Tarantino, Robert De Niro, Russia, Ryszard Kapuściński, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, The Beatles, Tom Wolfe, true crime, Victor Klemperer, Victor Serge, war, William Hazlitt, William Wordsworth, WWII, YA fiction
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2015 Books Read
Even I am impressed with how much I read this year. Along the course of the year, occasionally I’d think to myself, “Good job, Sheila, with your Self-Imposed Reading Plan!” I’ve read a lot of new novels (not really my … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Alexander Hamilton, Baseball A Literary Anthology, books read, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Marlowe, Edvard Radzinsky, Elvis Presley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Eliot, Hannah Arendt, Hunter S. Thompson, Ireland, J.D. Salinger, Jeanette Winterson, Jincy Willett, Joan Didion, John Banville, John Wayne, Joshua Ferris, Lorrie Moore, Machiavelli, Margaret Atwood, Norman Rush, Patricia Highsmith, Paul Zindel, Rasputin, Rebecca West, Ron Chernow, Russia, science, Seamus Heaney, Shakespeare, Vietnam, W.H. Auden, William Styron
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2013 Books Read
It’s been a hell of a year. Devastating as well as redemptive. I started it out in Memphis, and end it here in New Jersey. And now my new niece Pearl has arrived! It’s been both a busy year as … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Anne Fadiman, Annie Proulx, Arthur Koestler, Balkans, books read, Darkness at Noon, Edvard Radzinsky, Elinor Lipman, George Eliot, H.L. Mencken, Henry James, Herman Melville, J.D. Salinger, Jeanette Winterson, Joan Acocella, Joan Didion, John Banville, Joseph Heller, Joshua Ferris, Lester Bangs, Lorrie Moore, Patricia Highsmith, Philip K. Dick, Russia, Sam Cooke, Shakespeare, Tana French, Thomas Carlyle, Victor Serge
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Snapshots 10 words or less
— Hope is baffled when I draw the curtains. — Hours-long crying jag today. Hours. Satisfying and draining. — Reading Anagrams by Lorrie Moore. Loving it. — Cannot get enough of “Now” by Everclear. Literally. Constant rotation. — Checking the … Continue reading
Lorrie Moore: Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Reading Lorrie Moore’s Who Will Run the Frog Hospital. I’ve written about how much I love Moore before. I have only read her short stories. Never read this, one of her novels. A magnificent excerpt: We’d started working at Storyland … Continue reading
7 Weird Reading Facts
Got this from ricki. 1. I am very sensitive to typeface. I will NOT read a book if I find the typeface grating or unfriendly. I have bad eyes, too, so a good typeface is important. Penguin Classics USED to … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, book design, Cormac McCarthy, Elinor Lipman, Hopeful Monsters, Jeanette Winterson, John Irving, Lives of the Saints, Lorrie Moore, Madeleine L'Engle, Margaret Atwood, Mating, Michael Chabon, Nancy Lemann, Nicholas Mosley, Norman Rush, Ring of Endless Light, Robert Kaplan, The Passion
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Interview with Lorrie Moore
I loved reading this recent interview with writer Lorrie Moore. There was so much I needed to hear, first of all … and I admire and love her writing so much. And anyone who faces awkward stressful situations by asking … Continue reading
The Books: “Birds of America” – ‘Terrific Mother’ (Lorrie Moore)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction Birds of America: Stories, by Lorrie Moore. Excerpt from the story ‘Terrific Mother’ – the last story in the collection. ‘Terrific Mother’ opens with a scene of such horror that it is hard to believe … Continue reading
The Books: “Birds of America” – ”People Like That Are the Only People Here” (Lorrie Moore)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction Birds of America, by Lorrie Moore. Excerpt from the story ‘People Like That Are the Only People Here’. It’s interesting that a story with a title suggesting huge generalizations (“people like that”) is also a … Continue reading