This is Part 6 of The Orphan in My Family Tree. It is the true tale of my ongoing […]
Category Archive: Reading for Pleasure
I’d like you to meet Fritz. He is my great great grandfather on my mother’s mother’s mother’s side. […]
I’m generally more of a “the journey is the thing” person than a goal oriented person, but for […]
“Thank You For Your Service” was not optimistic or pessimistic, angry or trite. It was simply, overwhelmingly honest. Like, two boxes of tissues honest.
I am instead suggesting we have continued conversations as a reading community about building the best collections we can that include characters and stories that have the potential to connect with each of us in a way that makes us all better and that increases our understanding of our society, our history, and our connectedness.
I loved War and Peace from the moment Pierre bumbled into scheming Anna Pavlovna’s party and proceeded to horrify everyone by fawning over Napoleon.
I appreciate Joyce’s technique and experiments with style. I found his echoes of, and connections to, other literary works rather fun. I, in turns, enjoyed Joyce’s cleverness and found that cleverness eye-rollingly overdone.
