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Booking Through Thursday: Meme with a meme

This week’s BTT offers a meme itself:

What was the last book you bought?

The Pets by Bragi Olafsson, part of my Open Letter subscription. As for store-bought books, it would be Marilynne Robinson’s Home. (One of the budgetary advantages of an excellent local library and publisher review copies.)

Name a book you have […]

No Opus! Not again!!

I had a feeling this was coming based on the last couple strips but Berkeley Breathed announced that, once again, Opus is leaving us. The end apparently will come in the Nov. 2 strip. Last month — on my birthday of all days — Opus was taken into custody by Homeland Security as an illegal […]

Book Review: The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell

Gen Xers probably don’t need, let alone want, advice from me. But if I may make one small suggestion. If and when you want to name a historian laureate, give serious consideration to Sarah Vowell.

I know, Vowell says she is not a historian and she’s not. But that elevates form over substance. History often […]

Musing Mondays: Reading changes

How has your reading changed over the years? Have you started reading more “meaty” books (books with more substance)? Or, have you gone to more “fluffy” reads? Perhaps you’ve done neither, and you’ve just always read the same type of thing! If that’s the case, why? Are you willing to step out of your […]

Stuck on my bookshelves

The WaPo book blog had something I thought interesting. What books remain on your shelves that you’ve never read but continue to keep even though you’ve weeded out lots of others over the years?

Underworld by Don DeLillo immediately comes to mind. It’s been on my shelves for close to a decade but I never […]