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Reading Through The Stacks

Reading Through The Stacks: The Reading Room

5th June 2012

Since the office/writing room/reading room has been reclaimed from the cat, my reading speed has improved.  I can read 376 words per minute.  Staples says so. What’s your reading speed? Recent reads have been: The Art of Fielding – I was right there with this, until the end.    That seems to be my go-to one-liner recently.  It just felt too neat.  More verbose ‘review’ may be coming soon! Full Dark House – This one I got from a Goodreads group…

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Reading Through The Stacks

Reading Through the Stacks: Every Letter Was a Love Letter

8th May 2012

Yesterday was spent trading notes with Sarge to save his hay-fevered voice.  When was the last time you wrote a love note or letter? Somewhere between note 1 and 17, I finished reading my 20th book of the year. Recent reads have been:  The Marriage Plot – Read this in three days.  The first two I was right there with it.  Yesterday, not so much.  I was just happy to read complex sentences again. Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades,…

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The Empty Shelf

1st May 2012

I am in the midst of sorting out books to give away/sell.  As someone who actively hoards books, this is painful.  But also a good thing.  I want more space, less clutter.  Fewer boxes to cart out when we move.  Somewhere in my mission, I found this: I’m posting the above as proof, and for posterity. What should I do with it? And if you had an empty shelf, what would you do with it?  …

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The Essentials

8th April 2012

This is what my Sunday looks like.  Books, popcorn and bed.  Bliss.  (The coffee is just out of shot.) My book:  The Shape of Water (I have a new Cop-crush.) Sarge’s book:  The Body Snatchers (Which I must read at some point this month.  The book-group says so.) Back to it.  Happy weekend, all!    …

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Reading Through the Stacks: February and March

1st April 2012

I’ll admit, not a lot of reading has happened in the last two months.  I’ve been busy being engaged, drafting a bunch of my own words and getting older. I read six books in January.  And seven more whole ones in February and March.   These are them:   Fante: A Family’s Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving Four to Score Post Office Tortilla Flat The Snow Child High Five The Sense of an Ending   And they weren’t even…

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