Sometimes I’m especially glad that I’m don’t teach reading, because if I had to help kids pick out books I’d be hard pressed to give them good advice. Books tend to come to me through a karmic pipeline of just-right-ness. Movies, music, and even news reports also try to travel on this special magnetic frequency, [...]
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karmic book discovery
Posted in books on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
development economics and project runway
Posted in NYC, books, fashion on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over the weekend, I finished The White Man’s Burden. Like the book Black Redneck, White Liberals that I read this fall, it may as well have been titled Shoot the White Girl as I commuted to and from my job in the Bronx. Still, with the cover buried in my lap or carried strategically, I [...]
revolutionary wanna-bes
Posted in NYC, books, fashion, journal on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I visited Sharon at her seasonal job — Barnes and Nobles. I understand her love of being around books and if I had a million dollars I’d work in a little bookshop and smile all day. If I was better at being my mother’s daughter I’d work in a library, but in [...]
subway shoulder reading
Posted in NYC, books, journal on September 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
At J’s suggestion and on loan from her brother, I am reading a book called “Black Rednecks, White Liberals.” The book is by a conservative, black Stanford professor named Thomas Sowell. It’s not something I would normally read, but my south Bronx experiences have tempered my initial stance on a specific set of [...]
shakespeare, rowling, and the gre
Posted in books on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Every few days, I make a list of about five GRE words that I’ve never heard before or have consistently used incorrectly. Most of them come out of my 500 word flashcard prep book, but some come from articles in the NYTimes Magazine or whatever else I’ve been reading.
I wish that Rowling had used some [...]
suspicious reading
Posted in books on June 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I pride myself on recognizing books by their covers. I can spot one I’ve read like an old friend on a crowded shelve across a room. Authors and publishers often have styles that serve as clues on unfamiliar books. A combination of my curiosity, my desire to regularly test my “spy” [...]
currently reading
Posted in books, journal on May 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The function I miss on this blog host is a “currently reading” tab. Though I’m well aware of the fact that I have three other venues for posting my ongoing progress through literature and non-fiction texts, it has so great an impact on my thinking and writing that I want it connected to my [...]
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