I’m still at work assembling all my posts. I’ve been busy.
2019
Summer’s end with Colson Whitehead and Chigozie Obioma: with bonus life update!
Review: More than we bargained for by John Stefanini (Foreword Reviews)
From Philip Roth’s home to mine, on buying a piece of his estate
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones: brief thoughts
How I single-handedly destroyed book reviewing. Or not.
Happy Birthday, Beatrix Potter
The Valedictorian of Being Dead by Heather Armstrong
An interview with former poet laureate Billy Collins
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
2007
Books in the Mail, Books on My Desk, Books, Books Everywhere!
Photo of the Day, Part Deux (Same Stuff, Different Day)
Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
A Book From My Personal Library
Flannery O’Connor – “Everything That Rises Must Converge”
Online Classics Selection for February: The Awakening
The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski
Alice’s Book Group, the Spine Crackers (that one cracks me up)(literally)
Saturday Night Sushi, or, Bar the Doors! Here Come Those Weirdos With the Camera…
News Release: My Official Good Work News
Mississippi Sissy by Kevin Sessums
Bluestalking Timeline: Crisis and Resolution
This Week’s Reading on the Light Side
Bluestalking Reader: The Folksy, Home-spun Side
Where I am When I’m Not Reading, Writing, or Writing about Reading and Writing
Edgar Award Winning Author Theresa Schwegel
The Continuing Debate on Fiction in the 21st Century, or, Honey, Take it From Me…
Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading by Maureen Corrigan
Lizzie Siddal: Face of the Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley
An Old Fashioned Arrangement by Susie Vereker
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Edgar Johnson on Charles Dickens: Maria Beadnell
More on Poor Miss Finch, Sorry
More Edgar Johnson on Charles Dickens
My First Abandoned Book of the Year: Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan
Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins – Pt. 2
On the Topic of New Year’s Resolutions
Edgar Johnson on Charles Dickens
Tillie Lerner Olsen, 1913-2007
2006
Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins
Drumroll, Please… Bluestalking Reader’s Top 10 Books Read in 2006
Jacket Magazine: Jagged with Love by Susanna Childress
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (a quickie)
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
The Sorrow of Sisters by Wendy K. Harris
Booker Book: Kate Grenville – The Secret River
Booker Book #4: M.J. Hyland – Carry Me Down
Interview and Review: Linda Gillard, A Lifetime Burning
When All is Said and Done by Robert Hill
Irene Nemirovsky and John McGahern
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Stranger Next Door by Amelie Nothomb
Rare Books and the Collection Thereof
Widow on the World by Pamela Fudge
Emotional Geology by Linda Gillard
Amelie Nothomb: Three Novels
The Bird of Night by Susan Hill
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Other Eden by Sarah Bryant
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