As I recall, my local library when I was a kid (shout-out to the Thornhill Branch of the St. Louis County Public Library!) had a summer reading program for youth for which the goal was reading fifty books. Can this be right? You’d add a metallic star sticker to a big public chart each time you read one, and you’d get […]
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What are you reading this summer?
posted by Laura
I have started so many posts for this blog in my head over the past few months. A post about My Age of Anxiety, which I actually finished ages ago and would probably have to reread at this point to properly write about. A post about Mary Szybist’s Incarnadine and another about Leslie Jamison’s The […]
Summer Reading
posted by Stacy
As a college professor, I enjoy my “time off” in the summer – or, rather, my time to actually get some work done that doesn’t involve grading papers and going to meetings. I enjoy the slower pace, warmer weather, and Farmers Market veggies as I revise articles and read for upcoming classes. I also love […]
August
14
Best Books of All Time?
posted by Stacy
Last week, I came upon this article: “40 Books to Read Before Turning 40”. I jokingly sent it to my boyfriend – currently enjoying his last few months in his 30s – and noted that he “has a lot of reading to do.” The books on the list are certainly some I’d recommend to anyone […]
August
02
I Capture the Castle
posted by Lynne Nugent
Despite considering myself an Anglophile, I was somehow unaware of Dodie Smith’s 1949 novel I Capture the Castle until recently, when Jen W., a member of my book group, told the rest of us in the most strenuous terms that we must read it immediately. I quickly learned why it is capable of generating such […]
July
08
Take My Advice…
posted by Stacy
When an award-winning novelist gives you a book recommendation, you should take it. Fellow University Iowa alum and General Education Literature instructor — and honorary “lettered lady” — V. V. Ganeshananthan is my go-to source for teaching ideas as I plan my World Literature syllabi. (Incidentally, she’s also the author of one of my favorite […]
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