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I feel like I’m in school again. Currently I am reading not one, not two, but three “big” books of the harder, good-for-you variety.

For my book group here in Oregon I am reading The Book of Margery Kempe an autobiography by a medieval mystic. Here’s an example:

Then it was our Lady’s turn to speak with [...]

I just finished a book titled Cotillion, by Georgette Heyer. My sister-in-law Rosanne recommended and lent it to me as being very funny. And it was truly engaging – a very fun read! Just the sort of thing to read if you’re looking for a romance and are not desirous of heavy mental activity or [...]

I finished reading Anna Karenina.\’c3\’82\’c2\~Of all of the books we’ve read in our book group so far (only 8 or so “classic” novels), it’s the one where I have most often thought “I know exactly what he/she is talking/thinking about and have felt similarly before myself.” Maybe it’s because of the multiple characters at various [...]

Not trying to make racial slurs. But I just read Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, and it falls right in with all of the other literature I’ve ever read about or by Russians. Not that there is a large amount of that, mind you. I’ve read Russka by Edward Rutherford, listened to Anna Karenina on [...]

For the last two years I’ve been in a book group. Our goal is to improve our minds by reading good literature and our guide is the book “The Well-Educated Mind.” Because we wanted to have the difficult job of choosing what exactly is “good literature” we just use the list provided by the auther, [...]