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Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe – An exhausting biography that thinks it’s a lyrical novel. But somehow affecting in the end. To the Lighthouse b...
The leaves were dropping yesterday off one particular maple outside my porch like a blizzard of yellow-red. They fell for about twenty minutes then st...
  I am reading Virginia Woolf's diary (I don't think she'll mind) and found this, which was pretty much how I was feeling yesterday, except abou...
I recently saw an article online about the diminishing number of American college students choosing arts-related degrees. Liberal arts degrees have de...
There used to be a bookstore maybe twenty miles from me called Daedalus Books that sold publishers remainders or overstock at good prices. They always...

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Stephen Evans "I don’t like what I write now"
16 November 2023
Have not read Heyer - will put her on the must read list. Have read Thackeray (though only Vanity Fa...
Rosy Cole "I don’t like what I write now"
16 November 2023
Would agree, but you have to admire those unflagging rhythms which carry the reader. That kind of dr...
Stephen Evans Lyrical Book Reports: Recent Reading
13 November 2023
I''m not implying any such But I hope it is at least entertaining.
Stephen Evans "I don’t like what I write now"
13 November 2023
I don't think Emerson cared much for fiction in general, except perhaps his neighbor Hawthorne's. H...
gr8word Lyrical Book Reports: Recent Reading
13 November 2023
We're sure My Winter World will make up for the deficits of all the others mentioned! :-))))