Books

  • Since the last check-in for A Round of Words in 80 Days, things have been…off for me. I’m not sure exactly what it is, since I usually have such a great enthusiasm and energy for my writing, but these past few days, it’s like my writing wanted to just take a break. I think the…

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  • Quaint Little Bookshops.

    I mentioned, in my last post, that I had picked the book up from the bargain basement at Horizon Books in Traverse City, MI. Horizon is one of the many, many, many reasons I miss that small northern city, and it got me thinking about how nice it would be to find a version of…

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  • I actually finished the book in January, but I haven’t posted my review yet, because I just haven’t been in enough of a ranting mood… “Big Trouble,” by Dave Barry It only took five books to get to one I didn’t like. I’m impressed, 2011. I’m probably being a little rough, though; “Big Trouble” wasn’t…

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  • Another book was finished this morning! I buckled down and swept through the last few pages to get to the final pages of the following: “Greek Tragedies: Volume 3” edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore featuring ‘The Eumenides” by Aechylus, “Philoctetes” and “Oedipus at Colonus” by Sophocles, and “The Bacchae” and “Alcestis” by Euripides…

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  • I don’t really have much to write about today (a statement that makes part of me want to rebel and cry: “There’s always a lot to write about!”), but my intention is to muse a little bit each day, and so if it’s just a short quip about nothing of substance, so be it. I’m…

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