In brief… Fidelity, by Wendell Berry. This might just be my favorite author of all time. In case you are not familiar with Berry’s fiction, he writes a lot about the rural town (or as he calls it, the “membership”) of Port William Kentucky, in stories that take place during the early part of the [...]
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Summer reading
Posted by Mo on September 13, 2011
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The Fifth Child, by Doris Lessing
Whoa! This was a freaky book. I can’t even remember the last time I read a book in a single day, but that’s what I did with this one yesterday. It went so fast that I never even had a chance to post it in my sidebar. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing is the [...]
Posted by Mo on August 3, 2011
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Corrupting Dr. Nice
Well this is a pretty interesting book I’m reading. Corrupting Dr. Nice, by John Kessel. This one comes from the time travel satire loony romance department. I imagine if Douglas Adams and Philip K. Dick wrote a book together it would turn out something like this. I have a feeling if you don’t like Adams [...]
Posted by Mo on August 1, 2011
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Hello, world!
Heh, post number four with this title. Soooo, here I am again. This time, sporting a new theme called Mystique. So far, I like it. My one complaint is that the main navigation under the header is a little off with the padding — it doesn’t look vertically centered, at least in Chrome. But it [...]
Posted by Mo on April 28, 2011
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Half Broke Horses: awesome!
Half Broke Horses is another book I read on vacation. This is one my mom brought, not something I planned on reading. But there it was, so I picked it up, and man! It was soooooo good! Half Broke Horses is Jeannette Walls’ biography of her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith (1901–1968). Well, it’s sort of [...]
Posted by Mo on March 6, 2011
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A lukewarm book review
So we were out of town recently, lolling about in the Caribbean while the kids had a week off from school. (Before you get any ideas, no, this vacation was paid for entirely by grandma and grandpa, bless their generous hearts.) While there I read a ton! It felt so good! I bet I read [...]
Posted by Mo on March 5, 2011
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A guilty pleasure
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries, by Molly Caldwell Crosby. This is a book about a truly hideous disease: epidemic encephalitis. It’s described in excruciating, gruesome detail. The symptoms, the desperate victims and their families, the heroic doctors working round the clock trying to discover its cause and cure… it’s [...]
Posted by Mo on January 29, 2011
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Smilla: first impressions
Well, four people voted on my poll and two of them voted for Smilla’s Sense of Snow, so that’s what I’m reading now. The poll was sort of silly, since I actually own all of these books and I can read them any time I want. But it was a fun excuse to try out [...]
Posted by Mo on January 27, 2011
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On my nightstand
