Mentors, Muses and Monsters
Without planning it, I managed today to finish reading Mentors, Muses and Monsters just as my train was pulling up …
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Libraries are Great!
So after saying I was surprised at how book wallowing hasn’t happened since I finished my class for the quarter, …
Reading Notes
Before I was done with school for the quarter and was imagining all the books I’d immerse myself in as …
It’s So Good!
I started reading Josipovici’s Moo Pak over the weekend. It is so good. Can’t say more just yet. I must …
Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles is an Oedipus play I had never read. I much prefer Antigone and Oedipus the …
Cookbooks
Hooray for Fridays! I am looking forward to a mostly snug weekend of reading and writing letters and holiday cards …
Lois The Witch
Today I welcome Elizabeth Gaskell on her Classics Circuit blog tour. The idea behind the Classics Circuit is to celebrate …
Writing Mentors
Just got in from shoveling snow and my fingers are finally thawing a bit. We got 7.4 inches which is …
How Do You Learn About Books?
A coworker recently asked me how I learned about new books to read. This is not the first time someone …
Closely Watched Trains
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal was originally written in 1949 just after the Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia. At that …
