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People Who Write About Reading

December 21, 2009 @ 7:42 pm | Filed under: Books

I am pining for Nick Hornby’s “Stuff I’m Reading” column, the one he wrote for The Believer. The one he stopped writing in September of 2008. The column that was published in …

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Reading Notes: May 2009

May 28, 2009 @ 6:42 pm | Filed under: Books

So what happened to my reading this month is Harvest Moon. I often get letters from people wondering how I manage to read so much. I think my typical response to this question tends to …

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Tags: Guernsey Literary Society, Wii

I Found the Dirt

April 21, 2009 @ 6:32 am | Filed under: Books

From Housekeeping vs. the Dirt, that is. It turned out to be a biography of Mötley Crüe. And so, there in the title of his collection of a year’s worth of literary columns, …

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Mid-April Reading Notes: Tey and Collins

April 19, 2009 @ 8:18 pm | Filed under: Books

Well, it hasn’t all been Nick Hornby this month. Last week I read two of the books from my March TBR stack and both of them were the kind of book you …

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Tags: booknotes, Daughter of Time, Hunger Games, Josephine Tey, Suzanne Collins

Housekeeping vs. Sludge

April 19, 2009 @ 2:11 pm | Filed under: Books

“I have always prized the accessible over the obscure, but after reading Housekeeping [by Marilynne Robinson] I can see that in some ways the easy, accessible novel is working at a disadvantage (not that …

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The Trouble Is, I Fancy Too Much

April 18, 2009 @ 8:39 pm | Filed under: Books, TBR

(This post is a follow-up to this one.) Ah, now we’re coming to it. I’ve reached the essay in which Nick Hornby includes a novel called Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson in his list of …

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Tags: Nick Hornby, TBR pile

I Hope He Likes Pepperoni

April 18, 2009 @ 6:42 am | Filed under: Books, Links

So I’m halfway through Housekeeping vs. the Dirt, my new collection of Nick Hornby’s essays on books and reading. I haven’t yet come to the bit I assume will be there, a passage …

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Tags: Nick Hornby

How Does He Love Me?

April 16, 2009 @ 12:37 pm | Filed under: Books

Let me count the books. After Scott left for the day, I found this on my pillow. ’Cause I’d said I was dying to read it.* Yup, he’s a keeper, all right. *Updating this with a Q-and-A …

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Booknotes

April 5, 2009 @ 7:18 pm | Filed under:

This page is a work-in-progress. I’m compiling links to seven years’ worth of book notes from my archives. Clicking on a title will take you to my post about the book. Sometimes a single …

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