Anna Karenina: The death of Nikolai Dmitrich
I’ve just left behind the chapters about the final illness and death of Nikolai Dmitrich, Levin’s wild, willful, radical half-brother. …
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The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
Having written some tourism-boosting articles about southeastern Massachusetts in my younger days, I was aware that Mr. & Mrs. Tom …
Anna Karenina: Passages
I highlight a striking passage in Anna Karenina, but put off posting it—then find another great passage, and so on. …
The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
One bitter winter day back in the early 1980s, my boyfriend (now my husband) introduced me to the Isabella Stewart …
Fours books + blizzard = coincidental reading
Thanks to Blizzard Nemo, I’ve had the opportunity to curl up with four books, bouncing back and forth as the …
Anna Karenina: deceit and denial
Anna and Vronsky have an intense relationship that feels—at least to them—markedly different from the casually clandestine affairs that others …
Re-reading Anna Karenina
I’m re-reading Anna Karenina, which I first read (and loved) as an undergraduate English major many years ago. My husband …
2013: Still Life, and others by Louise Penny
My first books of the new year are detective novels in a series by Canadian writer Louise Penny. Some fictional …
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison H. Bartlett
BONUS: A final book for “55 at 55” Bookstores and libraries are magical places, inviting us to discover new reading …
55 of 55: The St. Zita Society by Ruth Rendell
I began my year of “55 books at age 55” with an A: Alice I Have Been. So it’s fitting …
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