Monthly Archives: January 2019

Friends don’t make friends read Faust (and other 2018 reading mishaps)

Posted on January 26, 2019 by polloplayer

There we were, minding our own reading business, when out of the blue, our couples book club friend announced our next assignment: Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Yes, both volumes, I and II. (Insert Munch scream emoticon here) I … Continue reading →

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2018 Reading Recap: books that made my heart beat faster.

Posted on January 19, 2019 by polloplayer

I can be made perfectly happy by long books in which almost nothing happens. In general, the longer and the nothinger, the better. After all, there’s quite enough drama in the chicken yard to satisfy my need for suspense. But … Continue reading →

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A different kind of travel: the 2018 book list.

Posted on January 12, 2019 by polloplayer

Let’s put a bookmark in the river cruise for a bit – time to do the annual reading retrospective. To make it just a bit less jarring, we’ll start with four books from the 2018 reading list that echoed places we … Continue reading →

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Engelhartszell.

Posted on January 5, 2019 by polloplayer

It wasn’t on our bucket list, or on any list at all. Yet looking back on our trip, I often revisit that Sunday morning in Engelhartszell as a favorite moment of our river cruise. Here we were, standing with a … Continue reading →

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