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30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 27: Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton
This weekend, I spent two impossibly beautiful, blue-skied days in the Berkshires. Of course, I made a stop at The Mount, Edith...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 23: "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
If we're going to run the full literary gamut in this 30 books series, we're going to need to include something by Shakespeare. I have a...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 15: "The Golden Compass"
On the verge of the weekend, I have an exciting suggestion for your beach read: a throwback to the mid-90s, a time before even Harry...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 14: "Winesburg, Ohio"
Though I now live in a city (hi, Boston), I am at heart a lover of the small town. So much so, in fact, that I wrote my college thesis...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 8: "Jane Eyre"
I was talking with my family the other day and was appalled to hear them say a phrase so hateful to an English major’s ears: Victorian...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 4: "The Old Man and the Sea"
Lately, I’ve been watching a lot of nature shows on Netflix. I got pulled in by David Attenborough’s chirpy narration on Animal Planet,...
On Re-reading
Sometimes, I feel guilty about my proclivity to re-read books. There are SO MANY books in the world that I haven't read, and so many on...
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