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A Year of Reading, Part IX: My Favorite Favorites!

Posted on March 18, 2023 by polloplayer

Some books are slam dunk Top Ten, others are like that scruffy and unsought stray dog that follows you home – you keep telling it to go away but it refuses to leave and presently you realize it is a … Continue reading →

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A Year of Reading, Part VIII: The Favorites!

Posted on March 11, 2023 by polloplayer

Books are like relationships. Sometimes you know instantly that this is “the one”. Sometimes you start out cold and yet somehow it grows on you. A book can thrill you or haunt you or hurt you or surprise you or … Continue reading →

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A Year of Reading, Part VII: The Real Real

Posted on March 4, 2023 by polloplayer

One of the most gratifying aspects of non-fiction is that, in a few hundred pages or so, you can rather suddenly and efficiently have a grasp of something previously completely unknown to you. You think, how did I get this … Continue reading →

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A Year of Reading, Part VI: How real did you want it?

Posted on February 25, 2023 by polloplayer

Maybe I wasn’t paying attention in the past, but these days non-fiction reading can be positively shape-shifting. There seems to be a whole new category of what I call “fictional biography” where you don’t find out until the end that … Continue reading →

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A Year of Reading, Part V: …and just a bit more fiction

Posted on February 18, 2023 by polloplayer

I resolve every year to ground my reading ever so slightly more in reality, yet when it comes time to tally it all up, my list invariably leans toward fiction. Let’s face it: real life is full of real troubles. … Continue reading →

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A Year of Reading, Part IV: Light-ish Fiction

Posted on February 11, 2023 by polloplayer

As they say in the fine print, results may vary. You might adore a book that I loathe. (Don’t get me started on Ulysses…) The joyous thing is that there are so many books – something for everyone! Here are … Continue reading →

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A Year of Reading, Part III: Lesser Fiction

Posted on February 4, 2023 by polloplayer

Ah, the joys of fiction! It makes for a never-ending parade of Other People’s Lives which, sometimes, at least, makes our own seem normal by comparison. I’ll go in ascending order, meaning that these first eight reads were not the … Continue reading →

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A Year of Reading, Part II: Scratching the Surface

Posted on January 28, 2023 by polloplayer

When I’m not dealing with the really tough questions in life, like which color of nail polish to choose, or where the heck did that chicken wander off to, I occasionally ponder the little things, like what do I believe? … Continue reading →

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A Year of Reading, Part I: In the Word

Posted on January 21, 2023 by polloplayer

It’s always a happy moment when I meet my annual Goodreads reading challenge: Whew! I was truly surprised, though, when I went back through all the titles and realized that almost half of the reading I did in 2022 was … Continue reading →

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2021 Reading Re-Cap: Making the Best of an Unreal World

Posted on February 5, 2022 by polloplayer

We went from “two weeks to flatten the curve” to two years of hiding behind our doors and masks. Regardless of your pov on that long, strange, trip we can probably all agree that things have felt somewhat…unreal. Reading fiction … Continue reading →

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