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The previous post garnered a response from Anonymous.  "Tells us why? Women and Girls: Reports from UN Women indicate that over 38,00...

  I have books.  There are books in pretty much every room in the house, though we don't keep books in the bathrooms.    The other day I...

Just in the opening intro to Robert Caro’s Working, I was inspired to take on a project I’d put off for a couple of years now.   Caro reads ...

That's the question raised in a book I picked up at the Elliott Bay Bookstore in Seattle during Thanksgiving. I've just started read...

A link to Capacious led me into a rabbit hole that didn't let go for several hours.  As an academic, I found the first story too real a...

  From Ursula LeGuin's No Time To Spare , a book of essays that chews on topics from old age to writing.  In "It Doesn't Have t...

 Ida Partenza has been hired by Andrew Bevel in Hernan Diaz' Trust to write down his autobiography as he dictates.  But she's also s...

Yesterday I took a walk down to the harbor here on Bainbridge Island.    And on my way back I did a double take when I saw this fairly matur...

This book was published in November 26, 1859.  It takes place from 1775 through 1793 in Paris and London.   Dickens wrote about a period tha...

I'm working on posts related to COVID and our mayor, and on redistricting, but it takes time to post something that's got something ...

The first chapter of Robert Penn Warren's classic political novel about Louisiana's Huey Long is 72 pages.  It's richly descript...