If you’re feeling slightly bereft from the ending of the Harry Potter series there is good news: His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. Apparently this series has been around for some time now, so it’s possible you’ve already read them (in which case I’m very sorry you can’t enjoy them again for the [...]

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Well, after a busy summer of packing, moving, unpacking, adjusting, CPEing, working, and adjusting some more, we decided what better way to spend our two weeks of vacation than in a car driving across the country?? What could be better?
Clearly many things we discovered after the first of many 12 hour days, but we [...]

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Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee was a surprising book for me. I read about it first in the New York Times Book Review section and probably never would have bought it myself, but added it to my wishlist so I could get it from the library some day. Adam bought it for me shortly thereafter [...]

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Part of my birthday present involved driving four hours to this bookstore in Vermont. You, like Adam, might think that four hours is a long way to drive for a bookstore, but that only means that you, like Adam, have never been to this bookstore because it is so worth four hours in the [...]

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