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It Takes Reading A Favorite Book…
…to get me back in a bloggy frame of mind. Thanks to Chris Lott, I have, for the moment, put aside the many books piled up waiting (just finished Alexandra Fuller’s truly beautiful The Legend of...
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A Heartbreaker: Joyce’s “Araby” (More Motley Reading)
I can’t help it–this story gets to me every time. It’s not my favorite story in Dubliners; in fact, I avoid it in the gazillion anthologies it graces (mostly because I don’t want to read it to death)....
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Learning from Writers, Learning from Readers: Hearts and Minds in Balance
What an interesting time. As I continue to shed my classroom-teacher identity, I am learning more and more about the imposter syndrome and semantic gaps in our culture between professional expert and...
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So This Is What It’s Like… Sort Of…
With a less than a week left of the Motley Group reading of Joyce’s Dubliners, I am lingering a bit too long, I realize, mid-collection, thinking about what I’ve read, how the stories talk to one...
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