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Non-Fiction

bemildred

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1. "Quiet" - Susan Cain

Reply to Neoma (Original post)

Thu Aug 23, 2012, 06:18 AM

Aug 2012

"Sesame and Lilies" - John Ruskin

Also trying to get all the way through "Walden" once again. I usually manage to get through a section or two feeling I understand what Thoreau is going on about, and then my mind fogs over and I can't follow his prose until next time I try it.

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2012: what are you reading? [View all] Neoma Aug 2012 OP

"Quiet" - Susan Cain bemildred Aug 2012 #1

I just picked up a new biography of Galileo. Odin2005 Sep 2012 #2

"American Scholar" --- Always some good reads, sometimes all good reads. nt bemildred Sep 2012 #3