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day sixteen: more Hornby

January 16, 2017 @ 9:19 pm | Filed under: Books

Just a little FYI—I was poking around Amazon trying to figure out if there were any of Hornby’s “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” collections I’d missed, and I discovered there’s now (as of 2014, so …

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Hornby’s Case for Contemporary Fiction

May 27, 2010 @ 7:36 am | Filed under: Books

“The received wisdom is that novels too much of the moment won’t last: but what else do we have that delves so deeply into what we were thinking and feeling at any given period? …

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2017 Booklog

December 31, 2017 @ 6:45 pm | Filed under:

64. Soupy Leaves Home by Cecil Castellucci 63. The Lake Effect by Erin McCahan 62. The Miracle of the Artist’s Date by Julia Cameron 61. Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson 60. The …

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2017 Booklog

December 26, 2017 @ 10:40 am | Filed under:

Books Read in 2017 60. Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson 59. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron 58. A Simple Act of Gratitude by John Kralik 57. Watership Down by Richard Adams 56. …

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2017 Booklog

January 16, 2017 @ 10:37 am | Filed under:

9. Housekeeping Vs. The Dirt by Nick …

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day twelve: midweek booknotes

January 12, 2017 @ 6:24 am | Filed under: Books

1. Picture books: Ah Ha! by Jeff Mack. Chronicle Books. This deceptively simple story is an absolute hoot. The only text in the whole book are variations on “Ah ha!” and “Ahh!” Ah ha! A …

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day eight: commonplace book

January 8, 2017 @ 12:26 am | Filed under: Books

1. Yesterday I picked up one of my cleaning-spree finds: Nick Hornby’s Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt. Just the thing to reset my brain after Cybils reading, I thought. Hornby’s what-I’m-reading essay collections were hugely important to …

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Why we read

January 26, 2014 @ 8:39 am | Filed under: Books, Commonplace Book, Quotes from this week's reading

Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we’re having—a little fantasy about the people we might turn into one day, when our lives are different, quieter, more introspective, and when all …

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Booklog November 2013

December 1, 2013 @ 8:13 am | Filed under: Books

• The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert • Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (my college friend Beth Malone is starring as grown-up Alison in the Off-Broadway musical and I decided it was …

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