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Adult Books

Give Up, Give In, or Muddle Through?

03.03.2011

I knew someone once who loved to read. They had a very strict reading regimen. Only nonfiction. And whatever they started, they started on page one and went through to the last page. No skipping, no skimming. So there. When I told this person I liked to check out the index first, then dip into [...]

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That Thing We Do

06.02.2011

Why do we do what we do? I knit because I love the feel of merino and cashmere through my fingers; because I’m hypnotized by thick, rich color; and because I am addicted to the rhythm of my knitting needles making one stitch at a time as if a metronome marking time. One stitch. One [...]

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To Dip, To Skip, To Not

19.09.2010

I was flipping through Daniel Pennac’s The Rights of the Reader this morning. And in doing so, I was exercising one of my rights—(#8) To Dip In. My relationship with books is complicated. I love books. I love reading. But sometimes I don’t. Read, that is. When I was little, I read everything. When I got [...]

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The Tug of War Between Literary and Commercial…

05.08.2010

There’s been some talk lately around the kid lit blogs about literary fiction versus commercial. Although nearly impossible to define—and let’s not forget how subjective that definition would be as well—literary fiction is perceived to be more quiet, lyrical, and character driven, where commercial fiction is plot driven. Fine. But is one better than the [...]

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