I just finished Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson. It is a somewhat slight book, but the writing is at times beautiful and profound. The plot seems more a contrivance on which to hang her meditations on the self, loneliness, estrangement. I didn’t quite believe in the two girls, but the family, with the history of loss, the town [...]
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Housekeeping
Posted in Contemporary, books on July 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Teaching Company Revelations
Posted in Plays, Teaching Company on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished Classical Mythology taught by Elizabeth Vandiver. You really can’t go wrong with Greek and Roman myths and it was fun to revisit old familiar stories and learn new interpretations of some of them. Her discussion of Ovid was particularly interesting to me after reading Jane Alison’s fictionalized account of the exiled poet. [...]
