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the summer of memoirs: one that didn’t satisfy
It seems this summer I’ve strayed away from fiction and settled into a memoir-binge. My guess is that memoir/non-fiction is different enough from what I do all year long that my mind feels like it’s something different, even though it’s … Continue reading
fire-bored
I started off my summer of required reading with a lovely little memoir by Paul Guest. After that enjoyable experience, I turned to one of the only other memoirs on my lists: Firebird: a Memoir by Mark Doty. And I … Continue reading
reading about religion in the canadian bible belt
I don’t need to tell you all how much I enjoy Jon Krakauer’s work. It’s just not necessary. But I will mention that I figured that I would never sit down and read Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven. The … Continue reading
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daniel deronda: something is off
Throughout the month of December, I only finished reading one book. But that book was Daniel Deronda by George Eliot. So you know, I wasn’t sitting around doing nothing; I was very busy reading an 800-page classic (oh and starting … Continue reading
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dnf analysis: why I couldn’t read these books?
I don’t like not being able to finish a book. After all, there could be something totally amazing, mind-blowing, beautiful in just a page or two. People have said great things about the book. It’s a bestseller. What’s wrong with … Continue reading
trudging through isn’t good enough
In university, I spent a lot of time trudging through books. Books I didn’t care about. Books I had a hard time connecting to. Books written in old English. Shakespeare’s plays were certainly not meant to be read (so reading … Continue reading
