Booking Through thursday asks:
What book would you love to be able to read again for the first time?
None. That's not how I approach books. If I really like a book I don't want to read it again as if it was new. I want to read it again knowing what I know so I can then pick up things I missed the first time. If I was still reading it like it was the first time I'd never pick up those things.
June 2026 Reading
June was an unusual reading month for me. I wasn't really in the mood to read, and I had less time to read, because it was summer and ...
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Every year I read other people's "best of" lists but I've never done one myself. I'm a little ambivalent about the wor...
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*Part of my continuing blog series leading up to the 250 th anniversary of the founding of St. Louis in February 2014. In October...
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Since it is Independence Day I thought I would republish a story from long ago. This is the story of the family of my paternal grandmother w...
