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• Sunday Salon: September Is…

  

  Oh friends, you have no idea how this 70 degree weekend is like the Balm of Gilead to my soul. Friday held indescribable heat in my second story classroom, a... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sunday Salon: September Is...

  

  Oh friends, you have no idea how this 70 degree weekend is like the Balm of Gilead to my soul. Friday held indescribable heat in my second story classroom, a... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Mathematician's Shiva by Stuart Rojastaczer

  

  The Mathematician's Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer is ostensibly a novel about a shiva held for mathematician Rachel Karnakovitch. But it is much more than... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Mathematician’s Shiva by Stuart Rojastaczer

  

  The Mathematician’s Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer is ostensibly a novel about a shiva held for mathematician Rachela Karnakovitch. But it is much more than... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Wishing Tide by Barbara Davis

  

  "It's a hard thing to forgive those who wound us, but harder still to forgive the wounds we inflict upon ourselves."The Wishing Tide has a story you would expec... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Short on Patience, Short on Time

  

  If you had any idea, even vaguely, of how hot it's been in my classroom this week then you would understand why I haven't put up a post since Tuesday, let... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The First Day of School

  

  This is the school district's plan for keeping cool as we have no air conditioning.But it doesn't rob me of the joy of fresh pencils ready to write new... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: Initial Thoughts After My...

  

  The first sentence is rather shocking. "From July of his sophomore year in college until the following January, all Tsukuru Tazaki could think about was dying. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• What's This? The Latest Murakami I've Been Waiting For? Details About The...

  

  How surprised I was to find the little cellophane windows which are indeed colorless:Underneath each clear stripe is a color indicating one of the main... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

  

  "He had little choice of means, whether fair or foul, because of his helpless circumstances. If he chose honest means, he would undoubtedly starve to death... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• If You Want A Book, Don't Pre-Order It From Amazon (and a Murakami Read-along...

  If you were the least bit frustrated waiting for news about the read-along I'm hosting on Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Magritte: The Mystery of The Ordinary

  

  Let's get surreal. That is what the Art Institute of Chicago suggested we do, as we appreciate the works of surrealism. Particularly those of Magritte. Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Women In Translation Month: Books I Own, Books You May Want To Try

  

  These are the hard copies of books I own which fit Women in Translation Month this August. I'm sure I have more on my Kindle and Nook, but I will have to go... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• - the Day Was Not Bronzed with Special Light - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi...

  

  "Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out thi... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis

  

  The best children's books are the ones that adults can relate to the most. Like Charlotte's Web, which though written for children, explains the sorrow of loss... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Parade by Shuichi Yoshida

  

  "At the end of his fortune-telling the Rasputin next door apparently said this: "If you break out of this world you'll find this world again, only one size... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Thunday Thalon. A Thad Tale of What Uthed to Be My Tooth.

  I realize it's just a tooth, and in the grand scheme of things it could be a lot worse. But I'd grown attached to it over the course of my lifetime, and now we... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• In A Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

  

  This fascinating story is the account of a samurai's murder given to a high police commissioner from the perspective of a woodcutter, a traveling Buddhist... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Paris in Juillet: Au Revoir

  

  And so we come to the last day of July, and with it the closing of the event we have been celebrating all month: Paris in July. Of course this does not mean tha... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Parrots by Filippo Bologna

  

  "He leafed through it without interest, as if it were the phone book of a foreign city in which he did not know anybody. He looked at the pages, and they... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE