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Tag Archives: Why we read

A book ramble: A Tale For The Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki

April 29, 2014

I have so much to say about A Tale For the Time Being, and yet nothing I can say.  This …

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Beauty in Books

February 24, 2012

Last night, after a fifteen hour day of teaching prep, grading and teaching, I unwound by reading Where the Mountain …

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Of Dogs, Men and Nature

July 1, 2011

I gave my nephew a set of four books this last Christmas: Big Red, Irish Red, Outlaw Red (a trilogy …

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Vacation Reading – The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa

May 31, 2011

To celebrate a friend’s graduation from her MFA program, she and I flew to the Yucatan peninsula for ten days …

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