books
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This week’s banned book – James Joyce’s Ulysses – has taken me a few weeks to slog through, with several breaks for books that I enjoy – and even a couple of breaks for other banned books. Even last week’s D.H. Lawrence gave me a period of respite – and that is really all we need… Read more
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Today, August 9th, is National Book Lovers Day – and goodness knows we love books here in the Hippie Hut. God bless my better half; he has now constructed two libraries for me – in addition to book stacks and bookshelves everywhere. No matter how high my book stacks get, he never complains; rather, he… Read more
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I remember well the weekend that John F. Kennedy Jr.’s plane went missing en route to a family wedding at the Kennedy Compound, in July 1999 – as I suspect most of us my age does. Even before smartphones and social media, television news coverage was constant and I was glued as we all quickly… Read more
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This week’s Banned Books Friday – very early Monday morning as my left hip is still completely out with a CRPS flare I cannot contain so my schedule is a bit wonky – is James Baldwin’s 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain. For me, this was another classic reread from my high school days… 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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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
