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Sunday, July 22, 2012

"Every memorable class is a bit like a jazz composition"

Today's New York Times Op-Ed, "The Trouble with Online Learning"
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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

Current Reads

  • & Sons by David Gilbert

"To Read" List and Recommendations

  • The Anthropologist
  • E. B. White's Points of My Compass
  • The Women by T.C. Boyle
  • James and Kay Salter's A Life in Meals
  • The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
  • Alice Munro's The Progress of Love
  • Alice Munro's Runaway
  • ???

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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.