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Please Bear With Me….
while I decide on a design for my blog. I am never satisfied with the way my blog looks and wish WordPress provided for more customization. I’m satisfied with this new theme and will try to stick with it, but I can’t promise anything!
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Sunday Home Cooking
Ever since a co-worker brought a luscious pot of spicy pinto beans to a work potluck I’ve been craving them and wanting to make my own. Today I finally had a large chunk of time at home to monitor the 3 hours of cooking these beans need. I used the ingredients that above co-worker adds…
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A Heart of Stone by Renate Dorrestein
Translated from the Dutch by Hester Velmans I read this novel for Iris’s Month of Dutch Literature. It was the only Dutch title in my library branch and seemed like a good story so I eagerly started it. I can’t say I completely disliked it, but I was confused by it. It seemed, to me,…
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Received
After a couple of months of not buying or mooching very many books I suddenly have books in the mail. I think one of the small pleasures of life is to come home from work and find packages waiting in my mailbox. Divine! So here is what I’ve recently received: The Dark Tide by Vera Brittain…
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Before reading The Age of Innocence I was familiar with the basic story of the unrequited passion and doomed love between Newland Archer, a member of high society New York in the 1870’s, and his wife’s cousin, Madame Ellen Olenska. I’d seen the movie and also read many reviews of this classic Pulitzer Prize winning…
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Room for Reading
In August I will be moving from my humble one-bedroom apartment to a slightly larger townhouse with more room for all of my books. One of the great things about my little place has been the beautiful built-in bookshelves that have housed my collection, though my tomes have long ago spilled out into stacks underneath.…
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One Book, Two Book, Three Book Meme
I’ve really enjoyed reading various bloggers’ responses to this meme (I think it was started by Simon at Stuck in a Book) over the past few weeks so decided to have a go at it myself. 1. The book I’m currently reading: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. I read The House of Mirth and…
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Faith by Jennifer Haigh
This is a book that kept me mesmerized through all of last weekend, but I am having the hardest time writing about it! Does anyone else find that the books you truly admired and enjoyed leave you speechless? Faith is narrated by Sheila McGann, a thirty-something teacher who is determined to tell the full story…
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Sunday Miscellany
I’ve got a few things on my mind this Sunday morning that I want to mention here. The first is that I’ve decided to participate in Iris’s Month of Dutch Literature challenge for June. A few years ago I traced the genealogy of my paternal grandmother and discovered that my ancestors on that side of the family…
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The Trinity Six by Charles Cumming
I’ve been listening to this fast-paced spy thriller in my car for the past few weeks and it concluded a few days ago just as I was pulling out to go to the grocery store. Like all spy novels the plot is very complicated and involved so I’m just going to give the synopsis right from the…
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