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I had neither seen the movie nor read William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” before starting my Modern Library 100 project. After reading the first chapter, I said to Rockford — and I don’t think this is a major spoiler — “Well! They didn’t kill the pig. That’s a good thing, right?” And he laughed << Continue reading "How many times this week have I said ‘rings’ instead of ‘flies’? Four or so.” >> Have you heard about “The Clock Without a Face“? It’s a book from McSweeney’s that leads to real buried treasure! How cool is that? (Very, superduper cool.) Poppy felt much better after her brief battle with pneumonia last week, but she still had to finish out the full 10 days of her antibiotics. She’s a rather stubborn child, and it took a lot of cajoling and crying to get her to take the medicine — until I let her take a little << Continue reading "Putting the ball in her court” >> 9/52 A set of SuperGrandparents. My in-laws had signed on a few months ago to watch the kids for us this past weekend so we could go to a My Morning Jacket show. Then my sister-in-law had an unexpected need for help, for the very same weekend. Her husband << Continue reading "Date Night Nine really was one big holiday” >> American Life in Poetry: Column 266 << Continue reading "A lovely poem for a quiet evening” >> The ML100 continues to depress! William Kennedy’s “Ironweed” tells the story of Francis Phelan, a homeless man who has been almost entirely consumed by guilt. Ultimately, it’s a story about redemption, but the reader has to slog through quite a lot of sadness and destruction (and ghosts) to get to it. There wouldn’t really be << Continue reading "“My guilt is all I have left.”” >> |
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