Category Archives: Reading

Say It Ain’t So!

Posted on 05/20/2008 by chick

I just don’t feel like I have much creativity these days. It makes me worry. And then I worry more when I read quotes like this one by Doris Lessing, recent winner of the Novel Prize in Literature. I keep … Continue reading →

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From Ordinary to Extraordinary

Posted on 05/19/2008 by chick

The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye Grade: A- The Ordinary Princess is M.M. Kaye’s only children’s book. It is the story of a baby princess who is given the gift of ordinariness by a fairy. When she grows up, she … Continue reading →

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The Very Last

Posted on 05/18/2008 by chick

It is with both sadness and relief that I write about the last book from the Vonnegut Marathon. Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut Grade: A- In Timequake, a hiccup in the expansion of the universe sets time back by ten years. … Continue reading →

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Remembering

Posted on 05/16/2008 by chick

I have been reading a memoir by M.M. Kaye called The Sun in the Morning. It’s a long book and it feels like it’s taking forever to finish, but I don’t mind. I wish it really could go on forever. … Continue reading →

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Second-to-Last

Posted on 05/06/2008 by chick

Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut Grade: B Hocus Pocus is the story of a Vietnam War veteran who, after the war, becomes a physics teacher at a college for the rich but academically challenged. The school is invaded by an … Continue reading →

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Water, Water

Posted on 05/06/2008 by chick

I couldn’t have said it any better than this. No matter where I am, and even if I have no clear idea where I am, and no matter how much trouble I may be in, I can achieve a blank … Continue reading →

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So Many Books, So Little Time

Posted on 04/26/2008 by chick

I’m ashamed to admit it, but I’m intimidated by the amount of reading that I have to do.

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Vacation Tale

Posted on 04/22/2008 by chick

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall Grade: B- The Penderwicks is, as the subtitle states, a book about 4 sisters, 2 rabbits, and a boy. For their summer … Continue reading →

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Thinking of Grampa

Posted on 04/18/2008 by chick

I invented the Vonnegut Marathon partly as a way of symbolically honoring my grandfather. Now that the race is over, I feel like I did them both justice. The irony is that my grandfather was nothing like Vonnegut. He probably … Continue reading →

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Good Advice

Posted on 04/18/2008 by chick

Samuel Johnson’s mantra for keeping melancholy away: “If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”

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