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I don’t recall how or when I first came across the writing of Meera Lee Sethi at her blog, The Science Essayist, but I remember slowing down my normal speed reading to savor her thoughts and words. While there are many blogs I enjoy for their cont...
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. What you are reading was supposed to be a book about birds but it is about this, too. Have you backed a project on Kickstarter? It's gratifying, exciting... " Read more of this review » |
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“The bigger you feel things, the more curious you are; and the more problems you want to solve and not actually run from, the better everything is, even the things you already love.”
― Ben Tanzer, 99 Problems
― Ben Tanzer, 99 Problems
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till
they die!”
― Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
they die!”
― Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
“Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
Say hello to CCLaP's new book reviewers! (Nonfiction)
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updated Apr 08, 2013 01:45pm
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The Chicago Center for Literature and Photography now has four book reviewers, and they all happen to be members of Goodreads! Check out this article for more about them all, and the new weekly posting schedule that will be taking place at our blog.
The Year in Books, 2012 (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Jan 11, 2013 12:32pm
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A look at CCLaP's 50 favorite reads of 2012, of the 150 books we ended up reviewing.
The Year in Books, 2012 (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Jan 07, 2013 08:57am
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A look at CCLaP's 50 favorite reads of 2012, of the 150 books we ended up reviewing.
The Year In Books, 2010 (Nonfiction)
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updated Dec 31, 2010 01:20pm
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A four-part look at my favorite 40 books from 2010, of the 150 I ended up reading and reviewing.
The CCLaP 100: A mid-project report (Nonfiction)
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updated Oct 25, 2010 06:02pm
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Thoughts on recently completing book #50 in my massive ongoing essay series on so-called "literary classics."
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