‘Newsletter’ Category
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A Gate at the Stairs
0January 16, 2013 by Reader's Connection
Tassie Keltjin, the narrator of Lorrie Moore’s novel A Gate at the Stairs, is attending college and lives in a Midwestern college town. She is hired by an exotic couple,…
Category Book Review, Newsletter | Tags: A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
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This Blessed Plot
0December 14, 2012 by Reader's Connection
The 2012 gift suggestion list had only one history title on it so far, about the battle of Tippecanoe. I’m grateful to Deanna Long of the East Washington branch for…
Category Book Review, Gift Suggestions, Newsletter | Tags: 12 Weeks of Christmas~Hanukkah~Kwanzaa~Solstice~New Years, Foundation: The History of England From Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors, Peter Ackroyd
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Is This an Appropriate Holiday Gift?
1November 15, 2012 by Reader's Connection
When I got Robbie the Robot for Christmas, he was positioned in front of the tree and could gaze out robotically over the living room. Each of us boys received a…
Category Book Review, Gift Suggestions, Newsletter | Tags: 12 Weeks of Christmas~Hanukkah~Kwanzaa~Solstice~New Years, Christopher Hitchens, Mortality
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What’s Left of Her
0October 15, 2012 by Reader's Connection
My 2012 holiday gift list should include at least one teen title, and I’m delighted to feature Kat Zhang’s What’s Left of Me. Delighted because the novel is narrated by…
Category Book Review, Gift Suggestions, Newsletter | Tags: 12 Weeks of Christmas~Hanukkah~Kwanzaa~Solstice~New Years, Kat Zhang, The Hybrid Chronicles, What's Left of Me
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O, I’m Onto the Ontological Argument!
0September 13, 2012 by Reader's Connection
I was reading Jim Holt’s new book Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story at work, and I emitted such a clap of laughter that I had to apologize…
Category Book Review, Newsletter | Tags: Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist: An Existential Detective Story