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From Storm to Snow Country – Weather and Wishful Thinking
Storm was an American novel I had high hopes for, and on some levels it impressed me greatly. In the 1940s, George R Stewart crafted a visionary story of a Californian storm dubbed “Maria” and her impact on the lives and work of everyday people and animals, from electrical engineers to children and—a wild boar? Read more >>
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Of Wizards, Witches, and Coming Home
Today is one of those bright, gentle, gray summer days I love so much. My chair arrived a day early, so now I’m fully situated at my new desk and feeling very calm & cozy with some vanilla chamomile tea. When we arrived back yesterday after a weekend of travel, it really felt like coming Read more >>
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June Lately
It’s just past 10 am on a Tuesday and I am almost at the bottom of my first cup of coffee. I had my last day at my job on Friday, but life hasn’t slowed down. Though my husband and I got married at the courthouse already, we are also having a church wedding very Read more >>
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Checkout 19 (and a bit of Pond)
It’s been nearly a year now since I read Claire-Louise Bennett’s first novel, Pond (2015). I know it will become one of those core reading memories, because I remember reading it in my boyfriend’s apartment on a warm July afternoon. There were traces of Bennett in the reading experience itself. I was infinitely happy that 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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