A Few Good Links
It has been one of those brain and energy sucking days that make me glad the weekend is almost here. …
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Gardening
Spring this year has been one big tease week after week. We got an entire gorgeous week of sun and …
Alcestis
Euripides’ play Alcestis is – er – interesting. It is the earliest of Euripides’ surviving plays. Performed at the Dionysian …
2666
Part of my four-day holiday weekend has been spent thinking about Roberto Bolaño’s 2666. The book is huge, almost 1,000 …
A Quick Reading Update
I finished reading Bolaño’s 2666 last night! I’ve been reading this big book since the end of December 2010. It …
Ethan Frome
I have never read Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome. I saw the 1993 movie with Liam Neeson but that was so …
On Being Well Read
One of the things I love about the bookish life is how one thing so often leads to another. This …
The Trial
I’ve been delaying writing about Kafka’s The Trial in hopes that I would be able to sort it all together …
A Few Short Stories by Philip K. Dick
I’ve been reading some random short stories by Philip K. Dick on my Kindle these last few days. They are …
National Library Week
What a day it has been today. The network was down at work from just before I began at 7:30 …
