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Friday Thoughts: Building Bridges with Books
If you’re reading this, it’s probably Saturday already. Being on the West Coast, I have a couple of hours of Friday left, so… “Friday Thoughts” it is. There has been so much sad news lately. The Puget Sound area lost a police officer last week, and this week was his memorial. Through my job, I… Read more >>
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Wednesday Quote: Life
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer… Read more >>
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The Prince – A Study in Expediency
Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to… Read more >>
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The Reviewer’s Dilemma – How I Rate Books – Episode 9
Our voyage takes a detour through that hardest of decisions: how to rate a novel. I share my four personal guidelines for rating classics and show some examples of how this works in practice. Read more >>
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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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