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A Room Full of Books: February 2012
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A Room Full of Books. Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Saturday, February 11, 2012. Every book its reader. Okay, caveats gone. Here's the sequence of events that led to what I wanted to write about:. 1 I read Freedom. By Jonathan Franzen, and loved it. 2 I read about the comments made by writers Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult about the New York Times Book Review. 4 I read this article in the. I've been thinking a lot about all thi...
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A Room Full of Books: May 2011
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A Room Full of Books. Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Sunday, May 01, 2011. Anyway - if the first paragraph is all my own ranting, this one is about the validation I found in the introduction to All Facts Considered. By Kee Malesky. For those of you who don't listen to NPR around the clock (even the credits), she is a reference librarian there. Then she gets at one of the fundamental functions of librarianship:. I've always believe...
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A Room Full of Books: February 2011
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A Room Full of Books. Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Sunday, February 20, 2011. The grand test of virtue". I finished Down and Out in Paris and London. A week or two ago. Until I started reading it and saw the category "Fiction" on the back, I had assumed it was a memoir. From what I can gather, it's based on Orwell's experiences, but Orwell generally had money and family to fall back on, unlike his Down and Out. These last two pa...
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A Room Full of Books: April 2011
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A Room Full of Books. Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Friday, April 22, 2011. Talisman of the Moment: Peggy Olson. Peggy, can you get me some coffee? Season 3, Episode 13. In my cubicle at work, I have a Mad Men. Is Peggy sometimes abrasive? Does she know she's working for The Man even as she makes inroads for women? Does she have a lot to learn? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Subscribe to my blog. Freedom by...
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A Room Full of Books: That bwessed event
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A Room Full of Books. Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Saturday, August 11, 2012. I’ve been wanting to write this blog post for a while, but more pressing personal and work events have intervened. So here it goes; it's a bit long, but believe me, there are lots of other interesting details I'm leaving out in the interest of coherence. All quotes from Coontz, Stephanie. Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love ...
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A Room Full of Books: June 2011
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A Room Full of Books. Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Sunday, June 19, 2011. So, life has been busy, and it's about to get busier in the next few months. I have some topics in mind to write about later on. This entry is not about books. One of my favorite memories of Jeff is a time we were watching TV and an infomercial for this fancy pen set came on. Fancy pen sets were the kind of thing that got me excited in high school....That'...
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A Room Full of Books: Everybody's reading it
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A Room Full of Books. Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Saturday, April 07, 2012. I just read over my last post, and realized this one will be somewhat related. But not as long! Okay, so I have a friend - let's call him Ben. Ben forwarded me a web page the other day with a writer's snarky comments about adults reading YA books, specifically The Hunger Games. This despite the fact that he knew I had just read The Hunger Games. I do fi...
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A Room Full of Books: Summer reading
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A Room Full of Books. Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Sunday, August 21, 2011. Later, I took on books that seemed to need the boundaries of summer to push me to finish them: The Brothers Karamazov, Pale Fire,. And last summer (as chronicled here) Infinite Jest. This summer, I read James Gleick's book The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood. I realized that I didn't expect a lot of what the book was going to cover, especially ...
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A Room Full of Books: March 2011
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A Room Full of Books. Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Sunday, March 20, 2011. Sex at Dawn: An Exercise in Evaluating Information (Part 1). Writing an entry that includes "Part 1" implies that there will be a Part 2. Fair warning that this may or may not happen. Okay So I recently finished reading Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. Do I trust the sources the authors are citing? My first thought is my first pro...
