The Pleasures of Reading
Outside of school, when I was a kid I pretty much read whatever I wanted to. I went from book …
Category Archives: Books
My Mortal Enemy
My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather is even short for a novella. It took me about two hours to read …
Silly and Not Silly
Pac-Man: The Movie. The world always needs more silliness and more Pac-Man. I hope there is a Ms Pac-Man sequel. …
The Metamorphosis
If you woke up one morning and realized you’d turned into a big brown beetle while you slept, would you …
Summer
I decided to read Edith Wharton’s Summer right after I read George Eliot’s Silas Marner because Sandra Gilbert told me …
March Reading Notes
It was 80 degrees F (26 C) here over the weekend. The first time in recorded Minneapolis weather history that …
Quiet
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain has been getting loads of …
Celebrating Pi(e)
Happy Pi Day! What makes today Pi day? Why, it’s 3.14 of course! How does one celebrate Pi Day? I …
Silas Marner
In that far-off time superstition clung easily round every person or thing that was at all unwonted, or even intermittent …
Answering My Own Eleven Questions
It being Wednesday and me feeling rather lazy, I thought I would take this opportunity to answer my own eleven …
