Novel on Yellow Paper
Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith was first published in 1936. Supposedly the novel was written as a result …
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Library Linky-ness
Friday seems like a good day for a linky post about libraries. I know I have seen photos of many …
The Gates
Between working on school and watching President Obama’s State of the Union Address last night there wasn’t much room for …
More Reading and Rereading
Imagine my surprise last night when I am reading an article for class about mental models and not only is …
Edith and Henry
Edith Wharton first met Henry James at a dinner party in Paris, 1887. Wharton was young, hadn’t been married long …
Weekend Reading Notes
I expected to spend most of my weekend working on school and doing the reading for the coming week, but …
Edith Wharton
After reading Edith Wharton’s essay The Vice of Reading back in November I wanted to find out more about her …
Good Readers
It is so appropriate that reader Zeke posted a Nabokov quote on re-reading in his comment about Hazlitt’s essay the …
The Design of Everyday Things and Other Stuff
I did a lot of reading over my three-day weekend, unfortunately most of it was for school. For class I …
The Winter’s Tale
The trouble with a three-day holiday weekend is that it is more difficult to tell what day it is than …
