Fox in Sox
Hazel’s back in town! Part 1: Fox in Sox plus minor meltdown: Part 2: Meanwhile back with the Tweedle Beedles:
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Shop Amazon and Help Support Literacy!
Do you ever shop using Amazon.com? Consider taking a simple extra step to help promote literacy and support reading programs by accessing Amazon through the Books for America website next time! From...
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National Book Festival this weekend!
I don’t think I’m going to make the National Book Festival this year, but it’s such a great event I couldn’t pass up a quick plug. It took place two years ago on the weekend after I moved to the...
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When you’re shopping Amazon this holiday season, remember to help support literacy in the process! That’s all.
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The Shelf of Constant Reproach
I’ve been trying to catch up on some reading, trying to tidy up what I’ve been thinking of, since I read this article, as my shelf of constant reproach. It’s not a project I really hope to ever...
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The Time it Takes [to read]
(This started out as a short parenthetical, whoops): To me, the debate about e-readers versus traditional print books is misguided. Print books aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, and neither are...
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“You can only read so much”
Wow – lots of new books out by people I love, including Michael Chabon, J.K. Rowling, and Zadie Smith. And, who knew, a new novel from Barbara Kingsolver! Thinking about reviewing this many new titles,...
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William Maxwell once wrote, in “The Writer as Illusionist: A Speech Delivered at Smith College March 4, 1955,” “Though the writer may from time to time entertain paranoiac suspicions about critics and...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Good Morning
There are many versions of a good morning. Today, for instance, sleeping a little later, then propping up on pillows in the bed to drink coffee and read – ever steadily toward the end of Wolf Hall,...
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