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  • Books in Review

    I don't know if it was the reader, the profanity, or the subject matter, but I just didn't enjoy A Walk in the Woods as much as I did A Short History of Nearly Everything. I laughed out loud during A Short History. Oft…

  • Books in Review

    This was a silly, frothy, fun romp through English 104 ("British Literature: Shakespeare to Woolf").I've seen it called "clever" and "witty." I don't know if those are the right words--imaginative or inventive, perhaps.…

  • Books in Review

    I don't know whether it is more a mark of the excellence of his mind or the poverty of mine, but in taking notes on Wendell Berry's What Are People For?, I find that I am doing less notetaking than simple retyping.At eve…

  • Friday Food Festival

    Michael Pollan really missed out on a catchy hook for his new book.(If only he had had me as an editor!)I was reading his book again in the B&N. It's just as engaging as his last book, only perhaps a bit more diges…

  • Remaking Jane

    I have now watched all the Jane Austen remakes recently aired on PBS. (I did not watch them on PBS, not having a telly, but I'll leave you to figure out how that was accomplished.)I'm ambivalent.Not like I am about the …

  • The Year in Books

    This is the second from my book list that I've finished this year. (This was from the category "Popular Nonfiction.")In Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich recounts a three-month experiment, an attempt at "old-fashion…

  • The Year in Books

    I finished the first of my "List" books today.If you recall (or even if you don't), I have a list of ten books in each of ten categories that I'm interested in reading this year.My first finished book is from Category 4:…

  • A Year In Books

    Well, I just deleted my "Books Read 2007" sidebar without counting them all, so I have no idea how many books I read in 2007.But it was a lot, not even including the cookbooks, how-tos, half-finisheds, and just-a-chapter…

  • The Daily Theogram

    Isaac really devours books.Theo does, too.Literally.Devours them.

  • Theology Thursday

    Hmmm. . . that doesn't really have much kick to it, does it?Oh, well.But I'm here at school on Thursdays, no camera for The Daily Theogram, thinking theological thoughts and reading religious ramblings, so that may be wh…

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