A Tale of Two Cities
You already know about Dickens making frequent use of repetition in A Tale of Two Cities and you also know …
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Punctuation :-,?;!.
This blog post on commas at the NYTimes by Ben Yagoda the other day got me thinking not only about …
The End of Paper?
Did you catch the interesting article in Forbes in March, The End of Pax Papyra and the Fall of Big …
Rereading and the Possible Pleasure of an Unread Book
Why do people want to read faster? Not least because life is short: “So many books, so little time,” as …
What I Did on My Mini Vacation
I’ve been enjoying a nice mini vacation since my birthday last week which is one reason why I’ve not been …
Reading Women
I was interested in reading Stephanie Staal’s Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life but had …
Birthday Fun
Today is my birthday and Bookman and I both took the day off from work to celebrate. Our day began …
How to Make Reading Not Fun
If you want to kill the pleasure of reading, come up with a plan like the one Maura Kelly cooked …
The Pleasures of Reading
Outside of school, when I was a kid I pretty much read whatever I wanted to. I went from book …
My Mortal Enemy
My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather is even short for a novella. It took me about two hours to read …
