Reminders of a Bygone Home Drout’s specific aim, as he describes in the introduction, is “to explain…how Tolkien’s stories work, […]
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Something I’ve become more convinced of as time goes on is that New Year’s resolutions should focus on quality-of-life improvements,
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I’m a Top 30 librarian on Goodreads (in the last week). Have you ever learned something about yourself that made
One effect of losing your day job is that you begin to reflect on past work experiences. At least, that’s
Summary: Kurt Vonnegut advised against using semicolons, but he employed them regularly in his own writing. Learn about the eight
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I took the weekend off from being unemployed. Rather, let’s call it a couple half days. A little over week
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