Prep is a 2005 coming-of-age bildungsroman by Curtis Sittenfeld about a “LMK” (Lower Middle Class) girl from Indiana who goes to the prestigious Groton…I mean…
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Prep is a 2005 coming-of-age bildungsroman by Curtis Sittenfeld about a “LMK” (Lower Middle Class) girl from Indiana who goes to the prestigious Groton…I mean…
In Measure for Measure, Act 3, Scene I, the Duke gives a quote: Thou hast nor youth nor age, But, as it were, an after-dinner’s…
“Commercial entertainment, it’s efficiency, it’s sheer efficiency to deliver pleasure in large doses, changes peoples’ relationship to art & entertainment…I’d argue it changes us in…
This 2011 gem was a misunderstood work that I read sometime around publication, with one child aged six and two infants. They’re more mature now…
I read Atomic Habits of course read alongside my goal setting for the end of the year. Like nearly everything on the good end of…
The myths associated with doubles or doppelgangers are far deeper than I thought. Seeing a double presages death? Perhaps this is deeply in the collective…
The serendipity of browsing library stacks brought me to this Ivan Turgenev masterpiece. At less than 200 pages it is readable on a long plane flight.…
Better Shakespeare readers will have long since noticed the overlap between the following two famous passages. I read the first thinking the line “All the…
Trollope carves a unique spot among the heavyweights of the 19th century novels. He doesn’t have the well crafted plots of Austen, the precision of…
Pained by guilt for not having deeply studied, pondered then pontificated on different works, here lies a listing of the things I’ve read I’m not…