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Everything That's in My Attic

  • For the Commute Home

    I think Amazon is just phoning it in this week, although it’s a list I don’t mind driving to. The Buckinghams – Kind of a Drag (Rerecorded Version) – Kind of a Drag/Don’t You Care (Rerecorded Version) Van Morrison – Up Your Mind – The Authorized Bang CollectionEric Burdon & The Animals – San Franciscan Continue reading

  • Rain Falls in Real Time

    Going into the final week of the first quarter of the year. Chronicles of AvonleaL. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery But he was striding moodily along with his hands in his pockets, and his hat pulled down over his eyes, passing the old beech without a glance at it. Lucinda checked another sigh, gathered up an Continue reading

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  • Delight or Spite

    Actually in the mood for breakfast once. As usual, that has nothing to do with today’s selection. Sense and SensibilityJane Austen “But there is one comfort, my dear Miss Marianne; he is not the only young man in the world worth having; and with your pretty face you will never want admirers. Well, poor thing! Continue reading

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  • It’s Only Forever

    We’ve had a dozen Fridays now since I’ve started this project. Notes from the UndergroundFyodor Dostoyevsky Then, perhaps, we would be reconciled and drink to our everlasting friendship; but what was most bitter and humiliating for me was that I knew even then, knew fully and for certain; that I needed nothing of all this Continue reading

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  • Old 100th

    Despite the title, we’re still a week away from our 100th post (and three weeks away from our 100th book.) Adam BedeGeorge Eliot “That is Seth Bede, Adam’s brother–a Methodist, but a very good fellow. Poor Seth has looked rather down-hearted of late; I thought it was because of his father’s dying in that sad Continue reading

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  • By a Fire-Fly Lamp

    FrecklesGene Stratton Porter Freckles made himself clean and neat, and raced to town, but it was night and the stars were shining before he reached the home of the Bird Woman. From afar he could see that the house was ablaze with lights. The lawn and veranda were strung with fancy lanterns and alive with Continue reading

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  • …and Jacqueline Susann

    I don’t have any kind of header or filler or intro or anything today. The Good SoldierFord Madox Ford He didn’t drink, but he had an ungovernable temper, and the first thing that Nancy could remember was seeing her father strike her mother with his clenched fist so that her mother fell over sideways from Continue reading

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  • That Nervous Breath You Try to Hide

    Our 90th post Agnes GreyAnne Brontë But to be restricted to such associates was a serious evil, both in its immediate effects and the consequences that were likely to ensue. Never a new idea or stirring thought came to me from without; and such as rose within me were, for the most part, miserably crushed Continue reading

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  • Turn it Up!

    The Long Winters – Ultimatum (Live at The Crocodile) – Putting the Days to Bed Shannon and The Clams – Bean Fields – The Moon is in The Wrong PlacePepe Deluxé – Everybody Is – Everybody Is/Sweet Baby SunLeona Naess – Karma’s CometMan or Astro-Man? – Inside the Atom – Radcliffe Session 1996 The Chills Continue reading

  • Layin’ in a Grave so Long

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Today’s reading isn’t Irish. An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeAmbrose Bierce “To be hanged and drowned,” he thought, “that is not so bad; but I do not wish to be shot. No; I will not be shot; that is not fair.” He was not consciouis of an effort, but a sharp Continue reading

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