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This week at the library: the Spirit of ’76
Greetings, dear readers! It’s been a busy week for me, reading-wise, because work at the library has been slow. Oprah and Brad Pitt have been wandering around town filming for a movie, and a lot of our usual patrons and traffic … Continue reading
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This week: Strife at Sea
This has been a productive week in fiction, of the short kind at least. On Saturday afternoon I finished Power, Inc, and that’s another one down from the to-be-read-list. That list has altered a touch; I was using the wrong … Continue reading
This week: POWER! unLIMITED POWER!!!!!!
Dear readers: First, of literary interest, last night I discovered a “Classic Tales” podcast that features readings of classic stories. I haven’t figured out how to access their archives prior to February, but just on the front page are performances … Continue reading
A reading on Europe and the American South
To Europeans, Helen Taylor observed, the South ‘seems to share a troubled and profound burden of history’. [….] Europeans can see themselves in southern writing and history.William Faulkner’s famous observation that ‘the past is never dead, it’s not even past’ … Continue reading
A reading from "Confederates in the Attic"
Awakening the next morning in a $27 room at Salisbury’s EconLodge, I recognized the appeal of dwelling on the South’s past rather than its present. Stepping from my room into the motel parking lot, I gazed out a low-slung horseshoe … Continue reading
Excerpts from "A Place on Earth"
From Wendell Berry’s A Place on Earth, the story of a great flood and a terrible war. In the preacher’s words the Heavenly City has risen up, surmounting their lives, the house, the town — the final hope, in which … Continue reading
A reading on your mind
The brain is like a book, the first draft of which is written by the genes during fetal development. No chapters are complete at birth, and some are just rough outlines waiting to be filled in during childhood. But not … Continue reading
Reviving Ophelia: A Reading
“Most preadolescent girls are marvelous company because they are interested in everything — sports, nature, people, music, and books. Almost all the heroines of girls’ literature come from this age group — Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, Pippi Longstocking and … Continue reading
A Reading
“I began to wonder what personal ideas I believed that weren’t true. I believed I was not athletic enough; too stupid; I believed I had to go to college; I believed the Astros were a more important team than the … Continue reading
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