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Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles starts with a very simple premise: what if the rotation of the Earth slowed slightly so that the days and nights gradually became longer and longer? Walker tells the story through the eyes […]
Hubby and I were flipping through channels Sunday night, and we landed on “The Yearling,” the 1946 film adaptation of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ 1938 novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. I never had to read “The Yearling” for […]
I’m a little embarrassed that it took me so long to discover this wonderful resource for writers and authors. (What can I say… I’ve always been a bit of a late bloomer!) But I’m pleased to say that I now […]
Spent last weekend in Tennessee celebrating the birthday of my father-in-law, who told me that his favorite book is “Adam Bede” by George Eliot. While I’ve had “Middlemarch” recommended to me several times over the years, I think this was […]
I recently finished “Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog!)” by Jerome K. Jerome, a book I’d never heard of until my sister recommended it to me last fall. The story is a humorous account of […]
Netflix recently added “The Sword in the Stone” to its streaming lineup, and since it’s one of the few Disney animated features I’d never seen, I sat down with my husband, who remembers watching it on VHS as a child, […]
I am what some may consider the world’s worst-read English major. I can’t count the number of conversations I’ve had in which someone has said to me “What? You’ve never read [insert name of Great Book here]?” For instance, I […]