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A Literary Moment with Thomas Henry Huxley

From Yeast by Thomas H. Huxley "The quantity of this dirty-looking stuff, that we call the scum and the lees, goes on increasing until it reaches a certain amount, and then it stops; and by the...

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And... I have a job interview!

Getting a job interview isn’t the same as having the actual job, of course, but it’s certainly a good first step. An essential first step. Especially when it’s an interview for my first choice...

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Colson Whitehead - Zone One (temporary post for resume)

Review A highly literary, humorous, and richly sensuous novel that reflects on the irony of fate in post-apocalyptic Manhattan As a child, "Mark Spitz" (the ironic nickname of the otherwise unnamed...

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Despite it all, I still loves me some library

It hasn't yet been a week since I lost my job but the hours drag on so slowly it feels like months. I want to smack the clock to get it going again. The feeling's so wretched, the nerves still raw,...

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Unemployment: The scourge and the process of recovery

Right, then. No grass growing under my feet. Let's do this thing. Our position is more fortunate than that of a lot of Americans. My husband is still employed and we have a cushion to fall back on,...

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Who got fired this week? This bitch!

Break ranks. Not book related. I was fired this week. F-I-R-E-D, people. FIRED. I lost my job. I am unemployed. I am part of the collective dis-en-work-ized. This is all about me. I DO NOT WANT TO...

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I've had the rest; it's here that's best.

Our newest proud possession: an espresso/cappuccino maker touched by God himself Ever since my husband and son returned from their spring break trip to Italy, all I've been hearing is...

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The Art of Aging Gracelessly

It's all flying by and that's probably for the best. The sooner these "good old days" are done the better. Alas and alack, but I am a tired soul. An old and tired soul... But I am reading the most...

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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 thing every year. Unlike me, it just...

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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 the classics - something that's...

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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 havoc, when given half a chance. And...

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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 desk at work today and I'm absolutely...

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

Bestselling eBooks 2012 - via Publishers Weekly 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...

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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 need to cry blood to keep you people...

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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 to have been away so long, not knowing...

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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 daughter, Sophie, and English-Pakistani...

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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, etc. I'll work it out, work through...

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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 and reviewing to pursue other things. I...

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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 ahead of schedule. I'm never ahead for...

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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. I'm in good company with peeps such as:...

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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 least an offense. I finished Jim...

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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 was for him a very serious business...

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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, especially since we now have one kid in...

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After Downton Abbey: Parade's End

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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, leading the police - and her family -...

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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 Benedict's final Ash Wednesday massPondering...

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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 comprehensive and/or definitive than any...

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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 reading I hope it's gripping and/or...

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A Literary Moment with Thomas Henry Huxley

And... I have a job interview!

Colson Whitehead - Zone One (temporary post for resume)

Despite it all, I still loves me some library

Unemployment: The scourge and the process of recovery

Who got fired this week? This bitch!

I've had the rest; it's here that's best.

The Art of Aging Gracelessly

What a Gal Reads on Her Birthday

Reading, Old and New

My NetGalley Hoard...

Can't Get Enough of that Bard

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

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

Slouching Toward the Keyboard

Mo Said She Was Quirky by James Kelman

What I posted yesterday, please ignore...

Hiatus, of a Long-Term Nature

The Sunday Salon: February 24

100 Essential Sites for Voracious Readers

A bit of catch-up

Monsieur Proust's Library by Anka Muhlstein

Late resolutions for addictions gone wild

After Downton Abbey: Parade's End

Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce

Ash Wednesday by T.S. Eliot

The most memorable of memoirs

The Sunday Salon: January 26, 2013

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