think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all, reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to see it in a completely different form. It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of antoerh, which is a precursor to empathy...
As part of Rebecca and Heather’s Really Old Classics Challenge, I recently finished up two books published pre-1600. They were both fabulous, and they made me want to read a lot more books from medieval and ancient times.
Arabian Nights trans by...
I find myself again wanting to review books in order to take my mind off other things. So today, I’ll talk about the Canadian books I’ve been reading! I finished three in November, which brings my total for the Canadian Challenge up to ten (I need to...
I’ve turned off comments for this post. I wanted you guys to know what was going on, since I mentioned in in my Sunday Salon post. But at the same time, I’m still too raw to really talk about it; I haven’t had a death in even extended family since I...
I wasn’t going to post today; on Thanksgiving we got some bad family news, and since then I’ve been too distracted to really get into blogging. But I’ve been reading a lot this week (hmmm…I wonder why? it couldn’t be that books are my comfort and...
I find it ironic that both the Chunkster Challenge and November Novella Challenge end this month! Extra long books and extra short ones, here I come.
Chunkster Challenge
The Chunkster Challenge began back in January, and I signed up for the...
