This is a catch-up post about two classics with nothing in common. 1. Conrad Richter’s The Light in the Forest (1953) So many of us read The Light in the Forest in school. Does it hold up? Yes, it is an American classic. Richter, who won the Pulitzer for The Town and the National Book […]
I’m almost finished with the holiday gift fuss. I’m assembling book parcels, tied up with a ribbon and tucked into cotton bookstore bags. Every year I organize my book parcels by theme, hoping a stack of themed books will entice readers. I am happy if my friends read one or two of the […]
I reread War and Peace every year. I started reading it again on New Year’s Day and just finished it a few hours ago. And now I’m ready to start again. No, Kat, you cannot! But War and Peace says everything, no? Why read anything else? The translator Rosemary Edmonds wrote, “War and Peace is […]
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