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Thoughts on a remarkable book I’ve just re-read
This week I re-read Brad Willis Warrior Pose, a book that has lodged in my memory since I first came upon it two years ago. I read a lot of books, but only a few do I read twice. It’s the … Continue reading
On Reading Rebecca Mead’s My Life in Middlemarch
All of us have a favorite book we wouldn’t mind reading again. For me, it’s David Copperfield, simply because I identify with much of what happens in it. The same holds true for Rebecca Mead in her bibliomemoir, My Life … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, books, Coventry, George Eliot, George Lewes, literary, literature, Middlemarch, My Llfe in Middlemarch, Rebecca Mead, Victorian, Victorian novels, writing
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On finding a new booklist quarry
I confess I’m addicted to booklists. No sooner do I finish one book, but I’m into another. What surprises me is that I can’t remember anyone in my family serving as a role model when I was a child, either … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Reflections
Tagged Aaron Hicklin, authors Brain Pickings, booklists, books, new york times style magazine, onegrandbooks.com, writers, writing
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Brimmings: Five Years and Counting
I’ve been keeping my blog, Brimmings, for five years now, never realizing when I began that I would pursue it for so long, initially undertaking it to assuage my wrestlings with serious illness at the time, or as diversion from … Continue reading
A Poet Reminisces: Essays After Eighty
I have always liked poetry and poets, in particular, because of their sensitivity to human experience. One poet I like a lot is Donald Hall, a giant among contemporary American poets, although he’s given up the craft, or as he … Continue reading
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Tagged best books, books, Donald Hall, essays, New Hampshire, old age, Poetry, poets, reminiscence, writers, writing, Writing Well
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Being Mortal
I’ve just finished reading Being Mortal: What Matters in the End by Dr. Atul Gawande. I had read his previous Complications about life as a surgeon several years ago, greatly impressed. Both books have been highly praised, with the present … Continue reading
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Tagged Atul Gawande, Being Mortal, books, death, doctors, Health, medicine, mortality, Tolstoy, writing
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Why some writers succeed and others don’t
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you do, but people will never forget how you made them feel (Maya Angelou). I like to read and I read omnivorously, whether fiction or non-fiction. … Continue reading
