As I’ve mentioned in passing, I’m working on a reading project for myself for next year. I want it to focus on a certain sort of book which I have been calling “classics.” The problem I keep running into, though, is how, exactly, to define “classic.” I used to think of a classic as an …
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Books For Your Ears (and My Love For Them)
I’ve listened to 25 audiobooks so far this year. I just checked. Frankly, I’m a bit blown away by that number. What prompted me to look at my list was a post by Melanie at Reclusive Bibliophile, who just finished her first audiobook and is looking for suggestions for what to pick up next. As …
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Sunday Salon: How Do You Cope?
A few days ago, Clare from The Literary Omnivore and I had the following conversation on Twitter about a particularly bad book she was reading: ErinReadsblog: Do you abandon awful books or just plow through? I find they often slow my overall reading down because I’m busy avoiding them. litomnivore: I plow. I’m a completionist. …
The Rights of the Reader
At the last minute, I added Daniel Pennac’s The Rights of the Reader to my Banned Books Week reading. I blame it for derailing my plans to read all three previously selected books in one week (I have about 30 pages of The Catcher in the Rye left to go), but Pennac’s book has been …
“Reading is an act of resistance.”
I had planned to have a review of one of my Banned Books Week selections ready to go for today, but alas, unpacking dominated my Tuesday. The quiet afternoon of bookish bliss I had planned was instead spent opening boxes and sorting possessions. Ah well. In place of said intended review, I’d like to share …