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My friend Anna Leahy suggested Get to Work: . . . And Get a Life, Before It’s Too Late to me awhile back when I was blogging about work-mother balance. I was a bit wary of the book after reading the reviews, but I’m so glad that I bought it anyways (used for $.01–what a [...]
If you haven’t yet weighed in on our last book group selection, “The Ones Who Walk From Omelas,” please do so soon! I’d like us all to get focused on our next selection: Dispossessed, by Ursula LeGuin. Can we also set up a time to meet and discuss in person and/or via webcam? If you’d [...]
Below you can find some meaty portions of DavidK’s review of “The Ones Who Walk From Omelas.” May I strongly suggest that you take the time to read through the entire review in addition to these excerpts! Now please chime in with your own thoughts on this text, too. I will be happy to print [...]
For a way-better-than mine summary and discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian [warning: not for the faint of heart], see DavidK’s blog. For those of you who are eager to get going on the pilgrim book club, let’s start with “The Ones Who Walk From Omelas”, which you can find online here.* I hereby nominate [...]
My book-loving friends: I have a proposal for a pilgrim book group*, where we (meaning all of you interested pilgrimgirl readers out there) could select a text and have a book chat together. Similar to the Mindonfire book group, our discussion would include meetings online, in person, and via webcam. I would like to propose [...]
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