Monthly Archives: January 2021

2020 Reading Re-Cap: A few more voices

Posted on January 30, 2021 by polloplayer

I suppose it is my own prosaic life that draws me to read biographies and memoirs. If I were doing anything more interesting than cleaning the chicken coop I wouldn’t have so much time on my hands to read. Here … Continue reading →

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2020 Reading Re-Cap: Other Voices

Posted on January 23, 2021 by polloplayer

As a child, I lived in an inauspicious neighborhood in a small, inauspicious Midwestern town. Everything about my life was inauspicious, really. Which made my school library, such as it was, seem like a palace. I still remember the day … Continue reading →

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Some fizz and some fizzles.

Posted on January 16, 2021 by polloplayer

One of the great things about being in a book club is that one ends up being exposed — well, sometimes dragged kicking and screaming — to a different genre, a new point of view, a stretch of one’s reading … Continue reading →

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2020 Reading Re-Cap: Lighten Up!

Posted on January 9, 2021 by polloplayer

“Wow that year sure flew by” …said absolutely no one about 2020. Yet, somehow there were still more books than time. For the first time ever, I managed to fail my reading goal which makes absolutely no sense given that … Continue reading →

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Canceling Culture.

Posted on January 2, 2021 by polloplayer

Whew! We’ve finally boot-kicked 2020 to where it belongs – the rear view mirror. Everyone’s circumstances were different, and thus, one’s means of coping varied – (bourbon, anyone?) My personal long distance memory of it might eventually be summed up … Continue reading →

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