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The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes, a review 17 Apr 2012 | 11:41 am
I just finished reading Julian Barnes's novel, The Sense of an Ending, and I loved how it kept me guessing. I love Barnes's writing, and here he really impressed me with his craftsmanship. It's the st...
RIP Adrienne Rich 30 Mar 2012 | 02:30 pm
Last week, American poet Adrienne Rich died at 82 of complications from rheumatoid arthritis. She is one of the first feminists I remember reading, and the poem I remember reading first was this one: ...
Spring Break Reading 29 Mar 2012 | 08:14 am
On spring break, my son is madly reading The Hunger Games trilogy before going to see the movie. He finished the first book in a day, and is now chugging through the second. The third is waiting on hi...
What I've read over the last few months 19 Mar 2012 | 11:52 am
Here's a list of the books I've read recently: The Leftovers, by Tom Perrotta--I really enjoyed Perrotta's writing, and the idea was really original. I liked that he doesn't present easy answers to t...
St. Patrick's Day read 18 Mar 2012 | 09:56 am
In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I'm beginning John Banville's novel The Sea. It's something I've wanted to read forever, not just because it won the Man Booker, but because so many people say Banville'...
Hello again, and the 100 Best First Lines of Novels 17 Mar 2012 | 08:26 am
So I quit blogging for the last six months or so, not for any terrible reason, but out of inertia. I guess I needed a break, and seem to have lost the urgency previously driving me to write about book...
Booking Through Thursday--In Public 23 Sep 2011 | 01:12 pm
Here's this week's Booking Through Thursday question: Do you carry books with you when you’re out and about in the world? And, do you ever try to hide the covers? I do carry books with me, in my vo...
Back To School 19 Sep 2011 | 06:55 am
The end of our summer was a little nuts. We sailed past Lady Liberty on our way out of New York Harbor on a cruise to Nova Scotia. It was a lovely trip, but... ...the last night of our cruise was a r...
Vacation Travel Reading: The East Coast 12 Aug 2011 | 04:48 pm
Well, I'm finally back to blogging after a summer off. It was unplanned, but it turned out that my kids were so busy this summer, I spent my time driving them around Los Angeles (even during "Carmaged...
Sunday Salon--and the list grows... 23 May 2011 | 10:31 am
I've been slowly making my way through Andre Dubus III's memoir Townie. It's admirably honest about his dysfunctional family and what it was like to grow up in poverty-stricken eastern mill towns in t...
