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Vintage Reads: Return to Gilead

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Saturday, 25 October 2014. Prairie had come into the fields and the orchards again and there were sunflowers growing in the road between the ruts. Marilynne Robinson, Gilead. Look forward to hearing Marilynne Robinson talk about her new novel Lila. At the Sheldonian in Oxford next month. If any book bloggers are going do let me know and maybe we can meet for a coffee - or something stronger! There is a gentle homespun humour in Gilead. We know that she is the second wife of minister John Ames and mother ...

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Me | The Block House

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Cinder blocks, cause they don't blow down. Idea #47 on how to fill out this page, because nothing seems right. It either seems too much or not enough. It seems egotistical or inauthentic. So for now, I’ll post a poem which I think speaks of ‘me’. Turn at Highway 258 truck stop, straight down. The gravel road to another Wal-Mart town. On that spot lived Queen Lula Mae, who wore. A crown of gray, lived in a 1957 Royal Mansion. Silver trailer, with a screened porch covered. Dirigible sightings, the Model-T.

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Frisbee: A Book Journal: Seven Days Till Christmas or the Materialistic Nightmare

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Frisbee: A Book Journal. Tuesday, December 18, 2012. Seven Days Till Christmas or the Materialistic Nightmare. There are seven days till the Materialistic Nightmare. I have n't bought. Fixie bike, ". Lazy Housekeepers Mop Slippers," or an iPhone. My husband said he would spend the day in the garage if I got him an iPhone. One book per person. That's what we're giving for gifts. Last year I was pushing a cart at Target in a daze, filling it with random items that nobody much wanted. As t hat of. William M...

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Frisbee: A Book Journal: March 2011

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Frisbee: A Book Journal. Thursday, March 31, 2011. Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. I collect rock fiction. Marcelle Clements's Rock Me. Sylvie Simmons's Too Weird for Ziggy. Francesca Lia's Dangerous Angels. It's typical of me that I read about rock music without actually listening to it. There is no simultaneous reading and listening. I did not read Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. Because I had a bad experience with Egan's Look at Me. Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. Time is...

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Frisbee: A Book Journal: February 2011

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Frisbee: A Book Journal. Sunday, February 27, 2011. What Do Bloggers Mean? I've read plenty of blog reviews like this. I haven't ached with loss yet, but I have recommended many books. I recently wrote an unintentionally provocative piece about bloggers and bookstore affiliates. Is it conflict of interest? Do bloggers compromise their standards. When they sign up to sell books as Amazon or B&N affiliates. Bloggers visited my blog to say there was no conflict of interest. Nobody but bloggers commented.

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The Block House

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Cinder blocks, cause they don't blow down. February 15, 2010. From → Posts. Larr; Previous Post. Next Post →. Leave one →. February 15, 2010 11:40 am. Lou I love this haiku and the pic relates perfectly:. Great use of sound as well as the visual. February 19, 2010 2:27 am. This makes me sigh. But geez that pier looks icy. Wouldn’t want to fall off that one. February 22, 2010 1:29 am. February 26, 2010 9:25 pm. Thanks everyone. I love this place. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.

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Frisbee: A Book Journal: The Male Book Count, or You Don't Understand Me

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Frisbee: A Book Journal. Monday, December 03, 2012. The Male Book Count, or You Don't Understand Me. I must get my "male book count" up, I announced. I don't mean sperm count: unlike Jennifer Aniston in The Switch. I will not be injecting sperm in a turkey baster. It wouldn't work at my age unless I joined the fecund women of the tribe in Ann Patchett's novel, State of Wonder. Astonishingly, I've read a few more books by men than I anticipated. So far I've read 45 books by men. That's 31 percent! Well, m...

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Frisbee: A Book Journal: April 2011

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Frisbee: A Book Journal. Saturday, April 30, 2011. Bicycling in the Sunshine and Mary Webb's Precious Bane. Bike Art on the Trail from Last Fall. When we saw the sun, we ran out in t-shirts and capris and soaked up the light. Finally! We felt like the girl in Ray Bradbury's story, "All Summer in a Day," one of the few characters on rainy Venus who knows sunshine. The wind just about gusted us off the path in a few places. We saw some who gave up. Fortunately it was at our back on the way home. Her poetic...

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Frisbee: A Book Journal: May 2011

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Frisbee: A Book Journal. Monday, May 30, 2011. Sports Injuries and Reading Penelope Mortimer's My Friend Says It's Bullet-Proof. It's Memorial Day. The U.S. Day of the Dead. You mourn for somebody, though everyone's so scattered that there's no one left in your hometown to put flowers on the grave. It's also the Start of Summer: And since you didn't plant a tiki torch in your back yard, or go to a Hawaiian theme or pool party, you need ice cream. Especially after all the sports injuries. I love this book.

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November | 2014 | mirabile dictu

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Monthly Archives: November 2014. Mirabile Does Middlebrow: Angus Wilson’s The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot. November 30, 2014. I don’t like to be classical when there’s a turkey in the oven. And so I read middlebrow novels on Thanksgiving. One year it was Edna Ferber’s. A bold novel about an intellectual Southern woman who marries a rich Texas rancher. (Ferber won the Pulitzer for her masterpiece,. On another, it was Jacqueline’s Susann’s page-turner,. Valley of the Dolls. The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot. Thepa...