Posts Tagged “books”

communing with books

by JS on November 30, 2009

“Your brain instinctively and naturally attempts to build something given whatever world it’s currently in. In a bookstore, with effort, I can shed the somethings of my everyday and find the nothing that I don’t know I’m looking for. (And (…)

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An Invisible Sign of My Own (page 123)

by JS on July 2, 2008

On Friday, listening to the now-familiar sound of retching in his room, I taught more subtraction to the second grade using word problems about the kids in the class: Ann DiLanno grew five heads in September and by October had (…)

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The goodness of the unread books currently in the house is almost unbearable

by JS on April 19, 2008

We went on one of our sprees last night. In other words, we had spent so much on used and remaindered books at Harvard Bookstore that we hit 20% discount time. We knew that going in: spree time involves a (…)

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