A Gate at the Stairs Lorrie Moore The Fountainhead Ayn Rand Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris Edmund White A Death in the Family James Agee The Piano Shop on the Left Bank Thaddeus Carhart Asylum Patrick McGrath The English Patient Michae...
I have seen this meme in several blogs that I read only to realize later that it might have originated in Facebook. This one is by far thesilliestmost random meme but I have decided to snag it just because of the very first question. I’m very passionate (distastefully) about blue che...
Filed under:Meme,Personal,Reading| Tagged:BBC Book Challenge,Meme,Personal,Reading|4 Comments » [643] The Lighthouse – Alison Moore Posted onby Matthew ” The ferry ploughs on across the North Sea, and home gets further and further away. The cold air from the vent seeps down the neck ...
intensity like rains coming down after a long drought. On top of the required readings I dug the obscure and outmoded works. Thus was born a reader who began a literary journey in a systematic manner. Filed under:Book Blogging,Meme,Personal,Reading| Tagged:Meme,Musing Mondays,Personal,Weekly ...
True. And throw one down as well. Filed under:Babble,Books,Meme,Personal,Reading| Tagged:Babble,Meme,Personal|2 Comments » Sinclair Lewis Declined Pulitzer I mentioned Sinclair Lewis declined the Pulitzer Prize. In 1926, on discovering that his novel,Arrowsmith, had been awarded what was then...
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I spent almost all day reading in sunny Palo Alto (where Stanford is). It’s a lazy day for blogging but I make headwaythrough Sense and SensibilityandMiddlemarch. Book talk and review will return on Monday. I have snagged a very interesting meme on food from a Chinese-language blog. ...
A Gate at the StairsLorrie Moore The FountainheadAyn Rand Parents Behaving BadlyScott Gummer The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of ParisEdmund White A Death in the FamilyJames Agee The Piano Shop on the Left BankThaddeus Carhart ...
As titled. It’s two days before new year but I’m not finished with the year’s readings. I don’t ring in the new year or do countdown party but I would spend all day on New Year’s Eve reading. From this list from Huffington Post I happen to have a few books that I’d ...
when we are quaint old folks and talk of the times when our step was lighter and our hair not grey, we may be even thankful for the trials that so endeared us to each other, and turned our lives into that current, down which we shall have glided so peacefully and calmly. ” (Ch....