Notes on Books & Life
Happy Friday, everyone! How are you enjoying Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro? I, for one, am having a hard time putting it down. There’s something about it that keeps sucking me back in. I’d planned to discuss just through part one today. Even though I’ve passed that point in my own reading, I …
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When Herta Müller won the Nobel Prize in 2009, I was rather ashamed to say I’d never heard of her, even though at that point I’d been working in a bookstore for two years. She immediately went onto my TBR list, and when I came across a copy of The Appointment at a recent library …
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Hello, reading buddies! As I mentioned last week, there’s no reading buddies book post this week. As I looked over the upcoming months, I realized this sort of thing will happen a few more times, since some months have four Fridays and others have five. I’m trying to keep discussions closer to the end of …
Just a quick note about scheduling, before I get to The Poisonwood Bible: looking ahead, March has only four Fridays, but April has five, one of which is April 1st. To make sure we stay closer to the end of the month than the beginning, I won’t be posting about March’s books until 3/11 and …
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Here we are at the end of the first Reading Buddies book: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. If you missed the discussion post, you can find it here. I chose to listen to the book on audio, as read by William Roberts. While Roberts’s narration was lively and well paced, I don’t …
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