Monthly Archives: April 2009
Wednesday night worlds
So the summer race series has begun in my part of Connecticut, and I’ll be racing every Wednesday night I possibly can from now until September. These races are my absolute favorite. They are only training races and so don’t … Continue reading
Filed under Cycling
Another meme!
This is the semester that will not end, and so, once again, I’m very grateful to come across an interesting meme to make posting a bit easier. I don’t want to go too long without posting here, after all. This … Continue reading
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is an excellent read, and I’m glad I’ve finally read the third Brontë sister, but I also found a few things dissatisfying and puzzling. First the good: I loved that this book deals … Continue reading
Blogging house guests
I never expected when I started blogging that it would lead me not only to making new friends from all over the world but also to getting to meet some of them. And yes, it sounds odd to talk about … Continue reading
On being a student again
So the online course in how to teach online continues; I’ve completed almost six weeks worth of work and have another three weeks to go. For the most part the class is a lot of fun. I enjoy being a … Continue reading
Filed under Teaching
Notes on various things
I began Anne Brontë’s novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall a week or so ago, and so far it’s been great. I do love nineteenth-century novels, and I miss them if I go too long without reading one. I love … Continue reading
Nothing to Be Frightened Of
I recently finished Julian Barnes’s book Nothing to Be Frightened Of, and I thought it was great, although I also couldn’t help but wonder what it was about an aging man’s musings about death that interested me so much. It’s … Continue reading
Filed under Books, Nonfiction
And the winner is …
BooksPlease! Thanks to everyone who entered, and a special thanks to everyone for helping to create a wonderful reading community! Now I’m very curious to see what BooksPlease will choose as the prize … just send me an email (ofbooksandbikes … Continue reading
Filed under Books
Time for a meme
That post title is appropriate, because about all I have time for is a meme. My life is utterly crazy right now. I think it’s the online class I’m taking that is largely responsible for my busyness, along with cycling … Continue reading
Book Give-Away
Today I received a lovely package in the mail today from the wonderful blogger Cipriano. It was (of course!) a book: Geraldine Brooks’s novel People of the Book, which I won in a contest he held a couple weeks ago. … Continue reading
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The Post-Office Girl
What stands out most to me about Stefan Zweig’s novel from the 1930s, The Post-Office Girl, is rage. The novel starts off calmly and meticulously, however — extremely so, with careful and precise descriptions of the Austrian post office where … Continue reading
