February 2012
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a southerner shares his thoughts on race...
Very interesting. I’ll be looking forward to the next in the series!
citizenkerry:
Last week I asked if you’d help me understand America. I was thrilled to hear from people, and hope to feature everyone who expressed interest. Today’s the first in the series.
Cullen is a 38-year old married father of three who lives in Memphis. He was born in rural Louisiana, and has lived everywhere...
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Happy Birthday Mabel Smith Douglass →
Founder of the New Jersey College for Women, later renamed Douglass College, now Douglass Residential College after the recent reorganization of Rutgers University.
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal,...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via bookmania)
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“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature,...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt in The Autobiography Of Eleanor Roosevelt (via poydrasreview)
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Lazy Self-Indulgent Book Reviews: The First Four... →
Ha! Awesome! I remember thinking he sucked after they got married too.
lazybookreviews:
Faithful readers remember that I frequently rail against Almanzo Wilder’s mediocre qualities as a husband.
Don’t get me wrong, kids, he was AWESOME as a sweetheart. He had horses, he walked her home from church, he picked her up at that horrible boarding house. He only BRIEFLY floated that…
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The Millions Rounds Up Literary Tumblrs. (We'd... →
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What I'm Reading
The two books I ordered during the Powell’s free shipping event (event?) came today -Green Girl by Kate Zambreno andGlory Goes and Gets Some by Emily Carter.
But I’m honoring my promise to revisit Hemingway and reading The Sun Also Rises.
I just finished An Almost Perfect Moment by Binnie Kirschenbaum, which I liked a lot.
(I had to pay a $10.60 fine at the library in order to...
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