Tag: Books
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I finally read David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
I skipped out on a lot of reading in my misspent youth. If a book was assigned in school, I quite often tried to fake my way through just to pass the tests. At over 800 pages, I doubt the Chicago Public School System would have required anyone to read David Copperfield anyway. I have…
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Getting through my book backlog
I have a stack of books on my shelf I’ve been wanting to get through. If you read I’m sure you know how it goes. You hear about a book that might interest you and you buy it before you forget intending on reading it later. Then it sits there on the shelf staring at…
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I love and miss the city that was
I just finished the book, “City of Big Shoulders – A History of Chicago”, this afternoon. The book was published over 20 years ago and it made me nostalgic for the city I grew up in and the people who lived there. I moved out when I was 19 but the city that was never…