Monthly Archives: February 2011

Check It Off — Lord Jim

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Kathy

Back-to-back classics. I just read Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim for the first time. It’s been sitting on the shelf lo these many years, reputedly one of John’s favorite books, and I finally took it down to read. I wonder if … Continue reading →

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Pride and Prejudice and BPD

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Kathy

My book group just discussed Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and since then I’ve been pondering what seems to me to be one of its themes. Austen intends for us, by the end of the book, to like Elizabeth and Darcy, … Continue reading →

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“Women Hold Up Half the Sky” (a Chinese Proverb)

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Kathy

It appears that more girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century. When I read this line aloud to my husband, he … Continue reading →

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