2024 book reports
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This week is a difficult one here in the Hippie Hut with a deeply painful (external) situation weighing heavily on me – so, predictably, I’m also really sick. (We are working towards a resolution of the issues now. I just wanted to share where I’ve been; my focus is just *gone* right now.) In the… Read more
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‘Tis Banned Books Friday, everyone. ❤ This has been an incredibly difficult week, so I have not done any reading for our banned books project – though I have read a couple of other good books I plan to share with y’all soon – and I’ve also just started James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on… Read more
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On our banned books list, I put off Jack London’s The Call of the Wild for some time, as I remember it well from when I was a child. Still, it was time. First, a *truly* brief summary – to explain why I’m such a weenie about this book 😉 If you aren’t familiar with The Call… Read more
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I am so very very off schedule – but this week’s late banned book Friday is two novels I would consider recent classics, frequently read in high school AP classes – both familiar to me – but, having read them many years ago, they were a difficult revisit – as they are intended to be.… Read more
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My better half and I are true crime enthusiasts – and our favorite person to watch, both with his previous show, “Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda,” describing his own homicide cases (with an amazing 92% rate of crimes solved), and now with a fantastic newer one, “American Detective With Lt. Joe Kenda,” where he hosts… Read more
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This week’s banned book is Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Published in 1962 – during the period when there was a great push to deinstitutionalize mental health (for better or worse) – Kesey’s novel – and the film adaptation that won many awards and has stood the test of time – paints a… Read more
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I ended up shifting my plans for this week’s Banned Books – sometimes Libby and the library have a way of deciding the order of things 😉 – after I realized that I needed to wrap up my Papa Hemingway reading and turn in my second book of his remaining novels, lest I anger the… Read more
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With my recent health difficulties, I realized that I missed one fantastic book I really wanted to share several weeks ago – and I also finished two great ones this week that I knew I was going to pass along – so today is regular book report day. ❤ First is the book I can’t… Read more
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It’s a late Banned Book Friday – on Sunday – this week because it has taken me a bit to sort myself on this one. This week’s Banned Book is Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange. I’ll begin by saying I wasn’t looking forward to this book but I did try *really* hard to make it… Read more
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I’m working on another post I hope to have up soon – Sasquatch related 🙂 – but I realized it is Banned Books Friday and I am actually going to make it on time this week. 😉 As I’ve been reading for a few different projects and it’s been the week from Hale, I only… Read more
