My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
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My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout My rating: 4 of 5 stars I needed a book like this. An uncomplicated book that in spite of how busy and ... Read more
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Review: Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
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Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine My rating: 4 of 5 stars My book group picked Citizen for the month of May. One unusually sunny ... Read more
What I Read In 2015/Want To Read in 2016
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I’ve been keeping track of what I’ve been reading since 2009 here on this blog. My goal for 2015 was to read 50 books. I came pretty close at 42, ... Read more
The Brothers K, by David James Duncan
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The Brothers K by David James Duncan My rating: 5 of 5 stars It took me just over three weeks to finish this book, and I’m a slow reader. Record ... Read more
Holy The Firm, Annie Dillard
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Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard My rating: 4 of 5 stars Oh, Ms. Dillard. I heart you. From the first time I opened Pilgrim At Tinker Creek in a ... Read more
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
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My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One by Elena Ferrante My rating: 3 of 5 stars I finished this book a while ago and have been thinking about what to ... Read more
A New Year! Some reflections, plus what I read in 2014.
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This past year I submitted my portfolio for National Board Certification, got married, and taught summer school for the first time. Somehow, I still managed to read WAY more books ... Read more
Inherent Vice Review
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Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Chris and I read this one together. We came across a preview for the movie coming out in December and, impressed by the cast and ... Read more
On Writing, By Eudora Welty
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Probably due to the reader, not the writer, there were times when I struggled with this short book on writing fiction, times when I just didn’t get it and times ... Read more
Sunday Book Review: History of Love by Nicole Krauss
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“A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother’s loneliness. Leo Gursky is just about surviving, ... Read more