Category: Books
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Diving Back In
There is no graceful way to dive back into blogging after taking nearly a year break. The desire to do it in such a way has proved paralyzing, so I decided to just start. Here is a boring blog about what I’m doing these days that has no pressure to be awesome or amazing or…
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8 Things Only Readers Understand
There are some things that only readers understand: 1. You can know a word, how it’s spelled, and what it means, and still have no idea how to pronounce it. This is called “reader’s vocabulary” or “Calliope syndrome”. This happens to me ALL the time – one specific word was “superfluous” which I thought was pronounced…
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What I Read the Rest of 2016
My reading updates have been rather sporadic this year as I took the summer off from blogging… and then most of the fall and winter, too. The combination of having no internet connection + building a house + incubating a baby turned out to be too much to handle and still make space for writing…