Tag Archives: reader

Young Adult Fiction Reviewer

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

I’m not a parent, but I have many good friends who are parents. I had two parents myself. My stepkids are parents. I’ve also been known to have opinions about parenting, which I usually keep to myself. So, with that … Continue reading →

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What’s Your Life-Changing Book?

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

It was Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams that set Salvadore Dali on his life-changing path when he read it in 1925 while attending art school. I learned this from one of the instructional plaques in the Salvadore Dali Museum … 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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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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