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Currently reading: “The Snow Child” by Eowyn Ivey
Howdy, friends. This is what I’m reading now: I’m just over halfway through, and I love it. I really love it. I love the quietness of it, the hope and the grief. It helps that it takes place in a cabin...
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Boston, books, blog
Howdy, friends. Here is the latest from the Boston blog, about the 20-miler I did last week. And I’m doing some profiles of South Dakotans running this year, so look for that coming up soon. If you are...
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Currently reading: “The Midwife of Hope River”
Howdy, friends. This is what I’m reading now: I couldn’t find a lot of reviews of it, but here is one from GoodReads. I’m almost done with it and LOVE it. I love all things labor and delivery, and I...
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Currently reading: “In the Kingdom of Men”
Howdy, friends. I thought I’d take a break from Boston-related stuff to return to my other love, reading. Is this where I confess that I had my library book in my drop bag for the marathon? I had a...
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Currently reading: “Sharp Objects” by Gillian Flynn
Howdy, friends. This is what I’m reading now: Here is a review from USA Today. I love to read an author’s first novel, and this is Flynn’s. I read “Gone Girl” earlier this year and loved it … right up...
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Currently reading: “Wolf Hall” by Hilary Mantel
Howdy, friends. This is what I’m reading now: I’m about 10 pages into it, so not very far. Especially considering it’s about 600 pages. And the first part was a list of characters — that spanned about...
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Currently reading: “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”
Howdy, friends. I confess — about 200 pages into the giant “Wolf Hall” Tudor history book, I had to read something else. I’ll probably read them both at the same time, but that book just kept making me...
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One thing leads to another … Franz Wright to Yann Martel
Howdy, friends. I am deep into “Brain on Fire” right now, a nonfiction account of a woman with a rare autoimmune disease that has her slowly descend into (then out of ) madness. It’s pretty awesome. As...
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Currently reading: “Love in a Headscarf”
Howdy, friends. This is what I’m reading now: And here it is on Amazon. And a blurb: “With honesty and humor, Shelina Zahra Janmohamed navigates the complicated world of being a British Muslim woman in...
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Currently reading: “Salvage the Bones” by Jesmyn Ward
Howdy, friends. I just finished “Love in a Headscarf,” which I give a C- to. I mean, it was OK. It wasn’t wonderfully written. It wasn’t that engaging. It wasn’t as spiritually introspective as it...
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Currently reading: “Gulp” by Mary Roach
Howdy, friends. This is what I’m reading now: I actually haven’t even opened it. I just moved it from my giant pile to the slightly smaller pile on my nightstand, meaning this is what’s up next. I’ve...
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Currently reading: “The Round House” by Louise Erdrich
Howdy, friends. I am just over halfway through this: It’s only the third book I’ve read by Louise Erdrich. I love it. Truly love it. Her writing makes me wish I had been a novelist. That I could write...
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Currently reading: “Love and Shame and Love”
Howdy friends. I’ve been remiss in my blogging. I blame nine days of being off work — and only opening a laptop one time during that period, and that was to update my running log. It was glorious. In...
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Currently reading: “Paris Trout” by Pete Dexter
Howdy, friends. In my continuing effort to read all two billion books on my nightstand, I picked up this over the weekend: My friend Patrick gave me this book in 2008. It’s been sitting there that long...
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Currently reading …“Thinking, fast and slow”
Howdy, friends. I just finished “Paris Trout” by Pete Dexter. It was awesome. Go read it. Now I started two other books … This is something my husband bought last year, after hearing the author on NPR....
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Currently reading: “Unorthodox” by Deborah Feldman
Howdy, friends. I ran through my list of saved books on GoodReads last week, and dug out a few I had noted I wanted to read. The library had this one: Here is the author’s website. And a review from...
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Currently reading: “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry”
Howdy, friends. This is what I’m currently reading (even though book club met on it last week — I still have 50 pages to go). Here is a review from the New York Times. And the Washington Post. It’s a...
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Currently reading: “The Dinner” by Herman Koch
Howdy, friends. This is what I’m reading right now: I’m just over halfway through it — and can’t put it down. I want to call in sick and read it. Here’s a summary from Booklist: Already a runaway hit...
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Currently Reading: “The Dark Road” by Ma Jian
Howdy, friends. Sometimes, you really can judge a book by its cover. I picked this up, randomly, at the library, just because I thought the image was so haunting: Turns out that was pretty telling for...
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Currently reading: “The Dog Stars” by Peter Heller
Howdy, friends. I’ve been mowing through books lately, which always happens during a race taper for me. Suddenly I have all this free time, and I don’t fall asleep at 8:15 p.m. because I’ve been up...
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