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I had a rocky start with The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders. Our reading relationship only got past the cover and first essay because I’d committed to read the book for outside reasons. However, I’m so glad I stuck it out because I ended up enjoying the book. Saunder’s collection of essays presents smart and [...]
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I decided to start participating in Sunday Salon because I think it will give me good impetus to blog more generally about reading and reading habits, which is something this blog needs. For anyone unfamiliar, Sunday Salon is hosted by Deb Hamel at The-DEBlog.com.
Here is how Deb describes the Sunday Salon:
Imagine some university library’s [...]
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Everything Bad is Good For You by Steven Berlin Johnson is the book project I mentioned in my Weekly Geeks #9 post. I really enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to others, but only with the caution that anyone seriously interested in cultural studies and pop culture is going to be [...]
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Last weeks Weekly Geeks was a blog scavenger hunt, which seemed really cool, but I just didn’t have the energy to put the time it required. I think I used that excuse for missing Weekly Geeks #6 too… Anyway, I’m really impressed with the bloggers that did it and got a lot of posts, [...]
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