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two good reads

April 4th, 2010
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We love books in our house and we tend to read a lot. That’s why I decided to share a bit about some of the books we’ve been reading. While I always seem to be in the middle of some book, my focus today is more on some of the great kids’ books that Aidan [...]

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reading elizabeth strout’s olive kitteridge

March 22nd, 2010
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For my fiction writing class this semester, I selected the 2009 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel in stories Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I hadn’t read it prior to the class (as I sometimes like to read a book for the first time along with my students), but I quickly found myself immersed in the lives of the [...]

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reading the road by cormac mccarthy

July 1st, 2009
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I’ve been reading McCarthy’s novel The Road for the past few days while on vacation. I’m about halfway through at this point and am not quite sure yet what I think. A friend of mine recommended it. I’ve never read any of McCarthy’s work before, but after getting the recommendation from my friend and really [...]

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