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Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture

I read The Last Lecture quickly, huddled in the tiny, drafty studio apartment that I lived in for six months in Manhattan’s Koreatown following the end of a relationship for which I’d given up a great 1 BR on the Lower East Side. I was newly single, sleeping on the extra long twin bed that [...]

Are Hardcover Book Prices Going Up?

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Have hardcover book prices been steadily increasing over the past two years?

The Plague by Albert Camus

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Fails the Bechdel test / Bloviations writ large / Not bad plane reading

I Love Some Terra Firma In My Readings

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Pleasing moments but perhaps not enough in Maxine Hong Kingston’s prose poem I Love A Broad Margin To My Life.

Metered-Out Twee

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Vintage-y office supplies that aren’t too precious

Flannery O’Connor: Wise Blood

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Do we become man-struggling-with-faith Hazel Motes while reading Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood?

Bernard Shaw: On the Prospects of Christianity

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The preface to Bernard Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion is a recommended read for anyone not terribly familiar with the Bible. Shaw’s exegesis is funny, dry, and sociohistorically illuminating — and still relevant today. Plus, the play’s pretty funny, too.

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The Librarienne

Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture

Are Hardcover Book Prices Going Up?

The Plague by Albert Camus

I Love Some Terra Firma In My Readings

Metered-Out Twee

Flannery O’Connor: Wise Blood

Bernard Shaw: On the Prospects of Christianity

The Questions Still Matter, 75 Years Later

Sam Tsui’s dulcet iTunes

I Stole My Best Friend’s CDs in May 2002

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