From the category archives:

Books

ALICE IN WONDERLAND APP…

by Cathleen Schine on April 14, 2010

NOW I DO HAVE GET ONE…

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Candide Rocks

by Cathleen Schine on January 27, 2010

The New York Public Library is doing a fantastic Candide exhibit with a lot of online stuff, to which, if I can write something worthy, I’m going to contribute. But check out this 2 minute Candide. It’s brilliant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk0XY199svk

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L.A. Dog, December Blossoms, TWO Hawks and My Antonia

by Cathleen Schine on December 5, 2009

A happy dog cruisin’ in California on his way to Thanksgiving dinner.

When we got back to the city, all the leaves had been summarily removed from the trees and deposited on the ground, making Riverside Park look gray and wintry and dull. And the idea of moving to California seemed like a brilliant incontrovertible idea.

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Not a Pigeon

by Cathleen Schine on November 15, 2009

A female cardinal landed on our balcony today and wanted very much to get in. There are birds you just fall in love with and the female cardinal is one, partly because as a child I watched one hatch her eggs in a nest visible from our porch (the cat unfortunately ate all her babies),

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The Philosophical Dog

by Cathleen Schine on October 22, 2009

That scruffy being above is a cairn terrier, which would be quite enough to make me turn to Justin Smith’s wonderful piece on 3quarks daily, but the piece itself, about dogs and philosophy, is fascinating. click here to read it.

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high volume of volumes

by Cathleen Schine on October 15, 2009

Today I went through the book shelves trying to find duplicates and other books I could donate to Betterworld.com so that I can make the bookshelves look nice and not so haphazardly crowded so that someone will see the apartment on Sunday and say, “What lovely orderly bookshelves! Why, I think I’ll buy this apartment!”

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNING OLIVE KITTERIDGE!!

by Cathleen Schine on April 20, 2009

I’m so happy!

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A bad blogger…

by Cathleen Schine on April 15, 2009

Sometimes people come up to me and say, “I could write a novel about my life.” I think I have committed the same act of hubris in the blog genre. I am a bad blogger. And I apologize. I am a blog sloth and my blog should be called a slog. I only blog when

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BEST BOOK OF 2008 — OLIVE KITTERIDGE

by Cathleen Schine on January 3, 2009

By Elizabeth Strout. By far.

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Typophile

by Cathleen Schine on November 14, 2008

I hope the Mormon Church doesn’t find out, but I am a Typophile. I suspected, but didn’t know for sure until I came upon this web site. click here
They have contests! Here is one of may favorite entries in the 3D contest:

It’s by David Williams. I don’t know who he is, except that he is

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