Tag Archives: reading

Reading Recap: At Tens and Elevenses

Posted on February 17, 2018 by

I was going to entitle this the Top Ten, but I must have been at tens and elevenses that day. Because it turns out that it is actually ten plus one that crowd the tippy-top of my list. One so … Continue reading →

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Reading Recap: My Lucky 13

Posted on February 10, 2018 by

Oh, I am a jaded reader. Even time-honored classics don’t make my top ten these days. But after the way I savaged some people’s favorite books and then summarily dismissed others, this should surprise no one. I’m a slow reader and time … Continue reading →

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Reading Recap: Some of the Most Interesting People I Met Last Year.

Posted on January 27, 2018 by

I traveled seven centuries to make some new acquaintances in my 2017 reading. A dozen biographies, memoirs and historical portraits illuminated my tiny canon of knowledge of history, art, politics and literature. Some of these books were a bit like … Continue reading →

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Reading Recap: ten books I wish someone else had read.

Posted on January 20, 2018 by

It’s not them, it’s me. Books that everyone loves but me. Books that are hyped, heralded; even a couple of classics among them. How dare I not like them? Collectively, they represent a couple of months of my reading year … Continue reading →

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Reading Recap: A High Point and Some Lows

Posted on January 6, 2018 by

Another year has passed without turning on the television. Not even once. We just can’t seem to do it, sinking into our books every evening while the remote gathers dust. I believe the CE may have read 100 books this … Continue reading →

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Your pages are numbered.

Posted on March 25, 2017 by

I keep a list of “Books to Read in 2017”, which has already swelled to a wishful thinking level of eighty volumes. Oh, and don’t forget the thirty additional reads that will be assigned throughout the year by my various … Continue reading →

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Shelf Life: Reading Retrospective, Part 4

Posted on January 28, 2017 by

July was a challenging month for reading. Not the least because the languorous summer days hold so many other temptations. It was also because I had decided to read that brick, that tome, that substitute-for-a-doorstop that is entitled Vanity Fair. And … Continue reading →

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