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Plath attack

Posted in Mostly about reading, tagged , , , , , , , on 8 April 2012 | 6 Comments »

I’ve been reading Bitter Fame, a biography of Sylvia Plath. This is not a very smart thing to do — read anything about or by Sylvia Plath — when you are feeling a bit imbalanced yourself.  I remember reading The Bell Jar while staying with my then-boyfriend’s parents in Phoenix, a city I had never [...]

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Books for writing mothers

Posted in Mostly about writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on 30 March 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I’m still new to being a “writing mother.”  So new that I feel like I have to put the term in quotes. When the twins and I first came home from the hospital I had a surprising amount of time to write — in my journal, at least.  I was recovering from a C-section and [...]

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Adieu Downton Abbey …

Posted in Mostly about reading, tagged , , , , , , , on 20 February 2012 | 1 Comment »

Last night was the last episode of the current season of Downton Abbey.  There’s a season three, but it’s months and months away.  What to do to tide you over? In my last Downton Abbey post I wrote about being a mother to baby twins, and how it felt like living in another, slower century [...]

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What I’ve been reading over the last year

Posted in Mostly about reading, tagged , , , , on 31 January 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Reading, with eleven month old twins??  Yes!  During naps, in the evenings, on weekends.  Here are some micro-reviews of my favorite books from their first (almost) year. Short stories (great when you’re constantly interrupted!): Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories (P.S.) by Lydia Peelle A collection of stories that capture the end of innocence [...]

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