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Friday, April 15, 2011

Guest Blog: On "Freedom"

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My friend Mary wrote me the following comments about the long novel "Freedom," which I struggled with some time ago (see my posts ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Marriage is a Mystery

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People say that you never really know what someone else’s marriage is truly like, and I agree. Even the marriages of one’s parents (althoug...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

"Must You Go?"

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The noted English historian and mystery novelist Antonia Fraser’s new book, “Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter” (Doubleday, 2010), tel...
Monday, April 11, 2011

"Three Stages of Amazement"

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Carol Edgarian’s “Three Stages of Amazement” (Scribner, 2011), intrigued me because it focuses on the financial crash of the past three year...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

Questioning Steinbeck’s "Charley"

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How disillusioning! An editorial in today’s (4/10/11) New York Times reports on Bill Steigerwald’s research showing that much of John Stein...
Saturday, April 9, 2011

"Marry or Burn"

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The eye-catching title of Valerie Trueblood’s collection of short stories, “Marry or Burn” (Counterpoint, 2010), is of course reminiscent of...
Friday, April 8, 2011

Bibliotherapy

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The concept of "bibliotherapy" may ring true for the many of us who would agree that reading -- among its many benefits -- can be ...
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StephanieVandrickReads
Stephanie Vandrick grew up in Canada, India, and Michigan. She has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of her adult life; she teaches at the University of San Francisco. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of four academic books and numerous journal articles. Her most recent book is "Growing Up with God and Empire: A Postcolonial Analysis of 'Missionary Kid' Memoirs" (Multilingual Matters, 2019). She is married and has an adult daughter and two wonderful grandchildren. She has been an avid reader since childhood. In this blog she writes about what she has read recently, her favorite books and authors, bookstores, libraries, her experiences related to reading, and other reading-related topics. You are invited to sign up as "followers," to comment on posts, and/or you can email her at vandricks@usfca.edu; she would like to hear from you.
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