My reading has slowed to a crawl the last few days. That would bother me except that a lot of the energy is going to writing and I’m not going to complain about that. Read Before I nearly stopped reading, … Continue reading →
Book: James Joyce’s Dubliners, An Illustrated Edition with Annotations by John Wyse Jackson and Bernard McGinley Genre: short stories Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Publication date: 1993 Pages: 200 (actually twice that since the annotation pages are given the same number as … Continue reading →
I’m still working through James Joyces’ Dubliners, as annotated by John Wyse Jackson and Bernard McGinley. It’s due today and I have it out on Inter-Library Loan, so I need to finish this! I still have the last and longest … Continue reading →
The last two weeks, my source of words for Wondrous Words Wednesday was “The Sisters,” the first story in James Joyce’s Dubliners. One sentence provided : gnomon and simony. This week, I’m moving on to the second story, a creepy (and not … Continue reading →
Last week for Wondrous Words Wednesday, I learned about the word gnomon from this quote in “The Sisters,” a story in Dubliners by James Joyce: Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the … Continue reading →
Reading As I mentioned in my Wondrous Words Wednesday post about the word gnomon, I’m reading an annotated version of James Joyce’s Dubliners. I’m going to get at least two more Wednesday posts from that book! My Tuesday CHECKpoint post … Continue reading →
For those of you curious about my source of new words last week, Oscar Wilde’s children’s stories, I posted a review of that book on Sunday: Book Review: Stories for Children by Oscar Wilde and a Wilde visit to St. Louis. … Continue reading →
Read I finished Unbowed by Wangari Maathai in time for book club, Book Review: Unbowed by Wangari Maathai, and Oscar Wilde’s children’s stories in time for a lecture noting the 130th anniversary of his visit to St. Louis, Book Review: Stories for … Continue reading →
Book: Stories for Children by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by P.J. Lynch Genre: Children’s book Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company Publication date: 1990 Pages: 94 Source: Library Summary: This book contains six of Oscar Wilde’s stories for children, drawn from two separate collections … Continue reading →