Nashvegas Reads: Why we read

I'm such a Times junkie - I know this. Maybe I'll branch out in the new year. In the meantime, here is an interesting article from the weekend on why we read.

Reading Log - some noteworthy additions

A Moveable Feast
Sweet Tooth
Beautiful Ruins
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Looking for Alaska
Poor Man's Feast
Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry
The Other Typist
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asisa by Mohsin Hamid
A World Lost by Wendell Berry
That Distant Land by Wendell Berry
Remembering by Wendell Berry
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry
Jefferson: The Art of Power
Jayber Crow
Life after Life
The Uninvited Guests
The Burgess Boys
Plainsong
Black Swan Green
Bring Up the Bodies
Franklin and Winston
A Month in the Country
The Master (again)
The Age of Desire
Rules of Civility
The Book Thief
Bowling Avenue
All the King's Men
Hannah Coulter
Wolf Hall
The Family Fang
By Blood
The Weird Sisters
The Sense of an Ending
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Catching Fire
The Hunger Games
The Magician's Assistant
The Portrait of a Lady
The Marriage Plot
Shakespeare's Kitchen
Giving Good Weight
The Headmaster
The Age of Innocence
Unbroken
The Eyre Affair
State of Wonder
Ladies and Gentlemen
Bossypants
Becoming Odyssa: Epic Adventures on the Appalachian Trail
Blood, Bones, and Butter
The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love
The Paris Wife
Just Kids
An Object of Beauty
Freedom
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Property
Wench
The Cookbook Collector
Hamlet!
Girls in Trucks
No Impact Man
The Sheltering Sky
The Age of Innocence
Daisy Miller
The Sun Also Rises
Mr. Peanut
Fun Home: A Tragicomic
Let the Great World Spin
The Dead of Jericho
Anna Quindlen's Being Perfect
Pillars of the Earth
The Angel's Game
The Time Traveler's Wife
Devil in the White City
A Homemade Life
The Help
Zeitoun
The Crucible
The Awakening
The Scarlet Letter
Fahrenheit 451
The Last Lecture
Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life
Stern Men
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Confederates in the Attic
People of the Book
Loving Frank
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
A Raisin in the Sun
Love Walked In
A Separate Peace
The Great Gatsby
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
American Wife
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Netherland
Brooklyn Follies
March
A Farewell to Arms
Evensong
The Glass Castle
Jane Austen: A Life
Three Cups of Tea
The Joy Luck Club
The Art of Mending
See You in a Hundred Years
Patron Saint of Liars
Matrimony
Bridge of Sighs
The Kite Runner
Run
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Empire Falls
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Moby Dick
Eat, Pray, Love
Lucky Jim
On Chesil Beach
Inheritance of Loss
The Maytrees

Statement of Purpose

My anti-blog status has changed radically in the last 72 hours. I am feeling sheepishly like that priest in the movie Shakespeare in Love who adamantly decries the playhouse only to find himself in the throes of Romeo and Juliet along with the rest of the packed house. So here am I. After several enlightening conversations on the purpose of blogging and three consecutive days of napping through Moby Dick, I've decided to take action. The only thing that is going to get me through this novel is writing about it. Hopefully this blog will serve as a means to thoughtful reading, something I am loath to do in the dog days of this Tennessee summer.

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Monday, November 26, 2007

Why we read

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