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Musing Mondays: Don’t leave home without it?

I always like to have a book with me at all times – call it a nerdy grown-up security blanket – and rarely do I leave the house without slipping one into my bag (even if I KNOW I’m not going to have a chance to read it). Do you take a book with […]

The year’s reading fixations: World lit, particularly Russia

As I was reviewing my reading list for the year in preparation for making my nominations (due today) for the National Book Critics Circle book awards, I noted clear evidence of the fixations I’ve commented on in the last year or so.

First, there was the foreign fiction fixation. That, in turn, led to […]

Weekend Edition: 12-13

Random Observations

Why You Should Never Say Never, Chapter 1: After dissing them forever, I joined the CrackBerry world with the new Storm.

Why You Should Never Say Never, Chapter 2: Eighteen months after joining Facebook, I finally put stuff up there.

Bookish Linkage

What, men lie to impress women?!? Who would believe that? Of […]

Booking Through Thursday: Reading time

1. Do you get to read as much as you WANT to read?

(I’m guessing #1 is an easy question for everyone?)

2. If you had (magically) more time to read–what would you read? Something educational? Classic? Comfort Reading? Escapism? Magazines?

Of course the answer to No. 1 is no. There are two things […]

Midweek Music Moment: Hotel California, Eagles

When Hotel California was released on December 8, 1976, I didn’t run out and buy it. In fact, I don’t think the copy we now have on CD is one I bought but something my wife bought.

Granted, part of the reason I didn’t buy it at the time was that, as a college student, […]