My adventures with Don Quixote and Sancho Panza continue. I am up to CD #16 of 29, having finished Volume I and moved into Volume II. I wondered how Cervantes could have possibly written a series of exploits of a deluded Knight Errant and his simple sidekick that would hold a reader’s attention. How different
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I have been wanting to write for some time about my experience seeing this exhibit but am still unsure I can find the language to describe it. I first learned of Rick Bartow when I read a review of this show about a year ago, on Hyperallergic. I immediately ordered the book because the images
Leslie Jamison’ The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath is a book I’d wanted to read ever since I had finished her earlier book The Empathy Exams and had heard that she was writing a far-ranging examination of her own alcoholism set within the context of the myth of the great alcoholic writer. In these 511
Three pages in the soft hairs on my upper legs stood up, I knew then that this was going to be a wonderful book. After last weeks heavy read (even without the controversy it stirred) I proclaimed aloud that I wanted something a little lighter as my next selection. There I go again making quasi-public
aI heard in a YouTube video I was showing to my class that The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was the only book that had made the narrator vomit I instantly thought hmm that is quite a reaction, I should read that! The Jungle is one of those rare gems written so well and with such
Ruby, By Cynthia Bond is the OneBook at my college this year. If you aren’t familiar with the concept let me explain. OneBook is a project where communities, Universities, colleges, and even cities, select one book to be read by members that year. Readers get the benefit of knowing others are reading along, it provides
After about the first fifty pages or so of Deborah Nelson’s Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil, I realized that my reading had slowed significantly, not just because the pages are very long and the typeface is very small, but also because of Nelson’s dense, carefully calibrated sentences that hold so much information
Funny enough, I could not find the cover of my edition online! So here is a crappy photo of it. All the other covers I see do not have illustrations at all really– more just designs. I feel lucky to have this one, since the cover sums up the story– the title, Between the Acts, just
I love talking about reading adventures with people around me because it invariably results in book recommendations! I picked this up at the library and ripped right through it- I was told by my neighbor Nancy that this is a nonfiction book that reads like a novel. I think she was spot on! I enjoyed
Books Seven and Eight: That Winter the Wolf Came, by Juliana Spahr & A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen
I finished each of these books in one sitting, which has taken a bit of the pressure off of getting through the challenge (!) … especially since I am now involved in a Wallace Stevens book about reality and the imagination- I am loving it, but it is pretty dense and taking me forever to
Open Arts Spring 2023 