Emerson on Carlyle
I wonder what it was in Emerson that allowed him to have good friendships with people that were difficult? He …
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Need I Say More?
My First Acquisition of 2008
I finally broke down and purchased my first book of 2008, Geraldine Brooks’ People of the Book. I got 46% …
Of Note
When I got the National Book Foundation’s eNewsletter in my email in box the other day I scoffed at the …
The Aspern Papers
It’s been so long it seems since I finished reading Henry James’s Aspern Papers that I am bound to forget …
Library School: Second Quarter, Second Week
Week two of my second quarter in library school has begun and I am enjoying it very much. The class …
Country of the Pointed Firs
I feel inadequate to the task of writing about Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne …
Emerson on Thoreau
Friday night and Saturday went pretty well as far as my part in the network merger goes. It went so …
Thursday Thirteen With a Little Whine
I could do a review of Country of the Pointed Firs today. Or I could do a review of Aspern …
The Language Instinct
Five months after I didn’t get to see Steven Pinker because of severe weather and a huge crowd, I have …
