Now that 2024 is over and all the best-of billets have been written, it’s time to turn to my 2025 Reading Plans. Since it worked well in 2024, I’m still doing three of my previous readalongs and challenges. If the title of the book is in French, it means I didn’t find an ...
Faustus thinking the LSE collapsing due to Brexit is a perfect example of what I was commenting last week about if not mattering what people think on the internet about global (or western) trends being the result of Brexit or Liz Truss In 1996 the US had 7,000 publicly traded companies, ...
Last week, I got to chair my dream literary festival event panel. It featured Togolese explorer Tété-Michel Kpomassie (myTogolese pick for my original year of reading the world), Bhutanese author and publisher Kunzang Choden (whoseThe Circle of KarmaI also read in 2012), and Bissau-Gui...
I can also see me repeating this entire post next week. This grandpappy isn’t complaining at all, but books are being shoved to the side more often than I’m used to. Still, for the sake of argument, let’s go with this…
2024: My year of reading nothing new January 20, 2024 By Ann Morgan in Events Tags: books, culture, publishing, reading, recommendations, translation, world literature 17 Comments This week, Renard Press, publisher of my most recent novel, included a note on royalties in the regular newslet...
And read thisshorter-than-the-Memoirs-versionabout Louis XIV here: “Portrait of the Sun King: From the Writings of Louis de Saint-Simon, Giovanni Battista Primi Visconti, and Ezechiel von Spanheim”:https://pages.uoregon.edu/dluebke/WesternCiv102/Saint-Simon.pdf ...
October was a month of reading ups and downs. Fortunately there were more ups than there were downs. Let’s get the downs out of the way first. My plan to join Karen and Simon for the#1962clubreading week took a nosedive because I couldn’t find the book I had earmarked for that ...
They used the same Chinese language textbook and had a comparable number of Chinese language lessons per week. The study design was approved by the ethics review board of the authors’ university. Informed consent was obtained from the schools and participants. Quantitative data was collected from ...
The last passage is about the Soviet's new working week. 2020-10-15: Section 3 The last passage is about social criticism. 2020-10-10: Section 1 The first passage is about decision-making and happiness. 2020-10-10: Section 2 The second passage is about bird migration. 2020-09-20: Se...
And read thisshorter-than-the-Memoirs-versionabout Louis XIV here: “Portrait of the Sun King: From the Writings of Louis de Saint-Simon, Giovanni Battista Primi Visconti, and Ezechiel von Spanheim”:https://pages.uoregon.edu/dluebke/WesternCiv102/Saint-Simon.pdf ...