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October’s reading

Books I read in October:

72. Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed by Kathy Marks
73. One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers by Gail Sher74. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis (R)
75. The Day of a Buddhist Practitioner by Bokar Rinpoche (R)
76. The Squire’s Tale [...]

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The 2008 Booklist

I’ve been logging the books I finish for several years now.  This list does not reflect all the books I picked up, started, and put down, or the books I read parts of deliberately.  I felt like I read fewer books this year than usual, but the count is close to those of previous years–the [...]

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Earlier this week I read a new novel by an author whom I’ve read with pleasure for about twenty years or so.  I haven’t read all of her books in that time, but I’ve read a representative sample, and I enjoy her approach to high fantasy, her lyrical prose, her way of grounding her characters [...]

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Religion is my fandom

Ever since I was a child, I’ve been interested in religion, my own and other people’s. One of my earliest memories involving books is of a volume of Greek myths for children; something about the illustrations disturbed me, and I wound up lying awake in bed, convinced that a vulture was going to come [...]

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