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• What a Gal Reads on Her Birthday

  

  Today is my birthday. It's also the day Virginia Woolf put rocks in her pockets and went wading in the River Ouse. Apropos. I'm pretty sure I say that same thin... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reading, Old and New

  

  “Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime.” - Andrew Marvell Once upon a time I read classics, the whole classics and nothing but th... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Can't Get Enough of That Bard

  

  Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors and Directors Ed. by Susannah Carson, Foreword by Harold Bloom Vintage (April 2013)   This arrived on my... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My NetGalley Hoard...

  When I say I shouldn't be let out of the house, I mean it. Or, I shouldn't be allowed near a computer with internet connectivity, more like. All I do is wreak... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Read All About It! Book News - 3/24/2013

  

  Philip Roth at 80 - via NPR   Most Anticipated Books, Spring 2013 - via Publishers Weekly   Jimmy Fallon's Books to Not Read - via NBC   Books Aren't Dead Yet... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Sunday Salon: 3/24/2013 - WTF? Edition

  

  Okay, I realize I was gone a while and the Interwebs stop for no woman but did I really fall to Blog #5 from... from... what I was before, which wasn't 5? Do I... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Slouching Toward the Keyboard

  

  Sad. I've been avoiding my blog because I'm embarrassed for saying I'm throwing in the towel, embarrassed to say I changed my mind overnight, then embarrassed t... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mo Said She Was Quirky by James Kelman

  

  Mo Said She Was Quirky by James Kelman Other Press (April 23, 2013) 320 pp. Source: NetGalley eBook Helen is divorced, living in London with her six-year old... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• What I Posted Yesterday, Please Ignore...

  

  Welcome to my public mid-life crisis. If you saw what I posted yesterday, pretend it didn't happen. If you didn't all well and good, no skin off anyone's nose,... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Hiatus, of a Long-Term Nature

  To all my wonderful readers over the past six or seven years (?), I thank you. It's been a joy meeting and knowing you. I'm taking a detour, leaving blogging an... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Sunday Salon: February 24

  

  Since January 1st I've read nineteen books, according to Goodreads. Nineteen! I set my 2013 goal at 100 (I read 50-ish last year) and am currently four books... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 100 Essential Sites for Voracious Readers

  Most 'umble thanks to Masters in English for including Bluestalking in their list of esteemed sites recommended for English majors and other rabid readers. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Bit of Catch-up

  

  Oh, for more time in the day. Whine! Have been rather a busy bee lately, starting and getting involved in so many books it has to be a criminal offense, or at... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Monsieur Proust's Library by Anka Muhlstein

  

  Monsieur Proust's Library by Anka Muhlstein Other Press, 2012 126pp. Genre: Nonfiction/Literary Criticism Library copy. " But even at a very young age reading... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Late Resolutions for Addictions Gone Wild

  

  My New Year's Resolutions for this year included a vague idea I should spend less money on books, instead reading more of my own stuff and the library's, ... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce

  

  Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce Random House, 2012 308 pp. Source: Library Tara Martin disappeared at age 16, her boyfriend the last person to see her,... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ash Wednesday by T.S. Eliot

  Opening lines of T.S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday," read by Irish Poet Seamus Heaney Related articlesYou've got a smudge of something on your foreheadPope... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Most Memorable of Memoirs

  

  While wandering aimlessly through various bookish periodicals, I came upon this list of "Memoirs That Will Last." Like all book lists, this one's no more... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Sunday Salon: January 26, 2013

  

  Happy Sunday, dears. I hope wherever you are on this vast planet your day/evening/night is peaceful and going/has gone well. Better yet, whatever you're... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker

  

  The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker Simon & Schuster, c. 2009; 256 pp. My personal library I couldn't stand Nicholson Baker the first time I encountered him.... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE