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The Books: Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to Yeats: Henry Vaughan
Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to Yeats, edited by Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine It’s funny, I was just thinking the other day about how I … Continue reading
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Tagged Madeleine L'Engle, poetry, Ring of Endless Light, Six Centuries of Great Poetry, Wales
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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, 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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Book Questions:
I got this from my good friend Ted . Naturally I had to go overboard and provide links (to my own blog), and I can never ever answer a question with only one choice. I refuse. What was the last … Continue reading
Ten Books I Couldn’t Live Without
1. Possession – by A.S. Byatt. Like Heather I have read this book probably 4 or 5 times – I just finished it yet again, and every time I come to it – I see different things, I relate to … Continue reading
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Tagged A.S. Byatt, Canada, Catch-22, Dubliners, Emily Climbs, England, Herman Melville, Hopeful Monsters, Ireland, Joseph Heller, L.M. Montgomery, Lives of the Saints, Madeleine L'Engle, Mating, Moby Dick, Nancy Lemann, Nicholas Mosley, Norman Rush, Paul Zindel, Possession, Ring of Endless Light, The Pigman
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The Books: A Ring of Endless Light (Madeleine L’Engle)
Daily Book Excerpt: YA/Children’s books Next book on the shelf is A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L’Engle. This is my favorite of all of her books. Can you have 2 favorites? Because A Wrinkle in Time is also … Continue reading