Category Archives: Reading

His one striking peculiarity was his Partingtonian fashion of loving and using big words for their own sakes, and independent of any bearing they  might have upon the thought he was purposing to convey. He always let his ponderous syllables … Continue reading →

Solvitur ambulando, writes St. Jerome — “to solve a problem, walk.” So who cares? is always a writer’s most fearsome uncertainty. Whatever the genre, a reader may begin to care if writers will look closely and report precisely and with … Continue reading →

Our trip to Wisconsin and Michigan was so fantastic, it left us wanting more. So on Sunday, July 18, one week after we got home, we headed out for a few more hours of vacation. Our destination was Evanston, and … Continue reading →

By the time I was in high school, I had developed the ability to ascertain exactly how much work I had to do to receive a reasonably good grade. And that’s exactly what I did. As an attractive side-effect of … Continue reading →

The heading of this post is the final sentence in The Wall, by John Hersey — a novel about a group of Jewish friends in the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland. And The Wall is the final … Continue reading →