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There aren’t a lot of things that I really, really, really enjoy. So it seems odd that having plenty of opportunity to engage in a couple of those things would feel, well… somewhat stressful. Yet reading books and watching hockey make me think I need a vacation. Not to get away from those things — […]
Today, the UK celebrated World Book Day, described as “the biggest annual celebration of books and reading in the UK and Ireland.” (Quite the concept, ain’t it?) As part of the event, the organizers sponsored a couple surveys that produced some intriguing results
One asked which best-selling book of the past decade people would give […]
I really don’t need to be lusting. Last month’s lust, along with a taste of this month’s, is taking roost. As occasionally happens, it seems a majority of my library “holds” come in at about the same time. As a result, I have five library books at the top of the TBR list. While, fortunately, […]
I’ve written several times about my increasing interest in addiction to literature in translation. More than a third of the fiction I read last year consisted of works in translation. Last week certainly contributed to it continuing.
Let me first note that I’m charter subscriber to Open Letter Books, so I automatically get 10 works […]
At least this month, I think I should rename this monthly compilation “Blame the Internet That My Library Hold List Is So Long.” I’m on the reserve list for every one of the books below. And, with the exception of the Don DeLillo novel novella, I learned about each of them via a blog or […]
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