Posts Tagged ‘Housekeeping’
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Oh, no! The tinkers are back! (NOT a reference to the ebook Tinker Stations)
2June 29, 2012 by Reader's Connection
George Crosby is a tinker, or used to be. He used to fix antique clocks. Now he’s lying on a rented hospital bed in his living room, dying. His father,…
Category Book Review | Tags: Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson, Paul Harding, Tinkers
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What’s the Big Read?
1July 9, 2009 by Reader's Connection
The Big Read is “The largest reading program in American history . . . designed to unite communities through great reading.” Those words were spoken by Dana Gioia, who was…
Category Uncategorized | Tags: Dashiell Hammett, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson, National Endowment for the Arts, The Big Read, The Maltese Falcon