Reading Journal

Bleak House Readalong – Week 1

August 26, 2010

How are you all doing on Bleak House? I admit that I’m a little behind the group. According to the schedule, I should be through Chapter 7 and working on Chapters 8-13. But, I confess, Mockingjay threw that all off. (It was worth it, though.) Anyway, I’m on page 53 of my Barnes & Noble [...]

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Reading Journal – 6/2/2008 & Book Club Report

June 2, 2008

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: In honor of Professor Foster’s impending new book, How to Read Novels Like a Professor, I’m doing a casual rereading of the original. What a lovely book. The Introduction captures, for me, the feeling of sitting in an actual college literature class. The Book of Lost Things: I [...]

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Reading Journal – 5/26/2008

May 26, 2008

Since I haven’t finished a book in the last few days and I have an itching to post, I’m going to write about my recent reading activities. Bible: I’m currently working my way ever so slowly through the Old Testament at the rate of one chapter per day. I recently made it to Numbers. So [...]

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The New Yorker, 4/14/08

May 7, 2008

I haven’t been keeping my on my New Yorker review.s For the past couple of weeks, I’ve had this particular issue stashed in my purse for reading emergencies. I’m retiring it today and putting another issue in my purse, so I thought I would do a quick rundown of my favorite articles. Annals of Law [...]

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Emma, Part I & Close Reading

April 18, 2008

I’ve lately been reading Emma, by Jane Austen. (Though I was temporarily derailed when I found Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos in the bargain bin at Borders.) Anyway, I started reading Emma in earnest because of the PBS Masterpiece Classic series “The Complete Jane Austen.” I have now viewed at least one [...]

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Book Club Report & The Uncommon Reader, Part I

March 28, 2008

Is “Fiction Friday” too trite? Probably. Good thing I didn’t pick it. Plus, if I set up too many weekly features, I’ll have to come up with something everyday. I have had a book-ridden week. Sadly, that left little time for reading. On Wednesday night, I went out with two women from my church to [...]

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Three Cups of Tea, Part I

March 12, 2008

At the halfway point in this book, I’m not sure how I feel about it. I don’t usually read nonfiction. This book is about a guy, Greg Mortenson, who went to Pakistan to climb K2. After a failed attempt at the summit, he got lost on the way down and ended up in a remote [...]

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The New Yorker, 2/25/08 & 3/3/08

March 6, 2008

The New Yorker – Feb. 25, 2008 This issue of the New Yorker didn’t speak to me as much as some of the others have. There were, though, as always, some interesting items. The Political Scene: On the Bus – this article chronicles some of the adventures on the McCain campaign trail. A Reporter at [...]

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