memory patch
There used to be this nice app on Facebook that I used to keep track of the books I’d read. I think a lot of other people liked it, too, which had the sad effect of overloading the system with new book...
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid I think I read too quickly sometimes, and miss the point the author’s trying to make. I remember this book getting a decent amount of attention when it...
View Articlethe devious book for cats
The Devious Book for Cats I went to Three Lives after class yesterday, giving in to a book-buying impulse. It’s also just a great place to browse; I picked up The God of Small Things from the staff...
View Articlemy invented country
My Invented Country, by Isabel Allende I borrowed this from the library on a whim, an homage to my travel-bookstore days, and nearly didn’t finish it. Actually, I still haven’t, but I’ve just got a few...
View Articlefar & falling man
I’m the sort of person who finds a new song, attaches to it and listens to it constantly for about two weeks, and then gets sick of it and needs to lay off it for a year or two. Song for this week is...
View Articleleechbook
For one of my classes, I’ve been doing a little research on Beowulf, which leads to all kinds of academic articles on the general literary scene of the Middle Ages. In one of the articles I was...
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