Category Archives: Book Readers

Successful Trip to Paris

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

Today I washed the fairy dust from Paris out of my hair. It was a bittersweet moment (the bad part being I was shedding some of Paris off me; the good part being I was shedding some of Paris off … Continue reading →

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Which Literature Grabbed You and Set You on Your Way?

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

My husband, Gary, said if he hadn’t read Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) and The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway) when he was young, he might never, as an adult, have read his other two favorite books so far: The … Continue reading →

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What Book Do You Wish You’d Never Read?

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

A book I wanted to throw across the room by the time I finished it was Something Happened by Joseph Heller. I won’t tell you what the “something” was that “happened” in the book. Suffice it to say I could … Continue reading →

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Borrowed Book Falls into Tub

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

You have probably noticed the tagline for this blogsite, in the upper right corner. The book I dropped in the tub was a hardcover copy of Graham Greene’s Travels with My Aunt. It was 1970 and I was working on … Continue reading →

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Kicked Out

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

So, I was having breakfast Tuesday morning with a small group that included a longtime friend – who wishes to be called by her Indian pseudonym – Calm Water. The chatter turned to this blog, which she has enjoyed, and … Continue reading →

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BookCrossing[dot]com

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

In my daily look at some of the places in the Blogroll (in right-hand column), I was reminded of the existence of www.BookCrossing.com, now also in the Blogroll. I wish I had remembered about this neat idea, now in Beta … Continue reading →

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Books Do Their Job

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

My personal reading preferences include memoirs, suspense fiction, literary fiction, and only a little nonfiction. I read to learn about other people or to be entertained; only rarely do I read for pleasure in order to be “educated.” I have always … Continue reading →

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Late to Reading

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

I met the wife of one of my cousins a few weeks back, for the first time, though they’ve now been married for many years. I hadn’t seen my cousin S. since 1988, just before he and his first wife got … Continue reading →

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