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• June 2020 Reminder for The Willa Cather Short Story Project

  By Chris Wolak on June 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Our story this month is “Before Breakfast,” the final of the three stories in The Old Beauty and Others (1948). “Before Breakfast” was the last story Cather finished. She wrote it in the summer of 1944 while staying on Mt. Desert… Read More ›

• The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

  By Chris Wolak on June 1, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  I read The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett for the 23rd Classics Club Spin. Today, June 1st, is the date by which participants were to have finished their spin book. This book has been on my… Read More ›

• Library Visit: Loyola University Chicago

  By Chris Wolak on May 31, 2020 • ( 7 )

  

  One of the big impacts that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on my reading and working life is not being able to go to the library, any library, for going on three months now. I commited to posting at least… Read More ›

• Response to “The Best Years.” The Willa Cather Short Story Project.

  By Chris Wolak on May 27, 2020 • ( 4 )

  

  These response posts assume you have read the story under discussion, so there are often spoilers . . . such is the case with this post. Leslie dies! I did not see that coming. Did you? Perhaps I didn’t see… Read More ›

• Join me at the First Ever Virtual Willa Cather Spring Conference!

  By Chris Wolak on May 24, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  The annual Spring Willa Cather Conference has been held in Red Cloud, Nebraska for over sixty years. Rather than cancel the conference due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s 65th Willa Cather Spring Conference will be held virtually. Conference organizers… Read More ›

• 2020 Big Book Summer Challenge

  By Chris Wolak on May 23, 2020 • ( 10 )

  

  This is the ninth year that my friend Sue, who blogs at Book By Book, is hosting her Big Book Summer Challenge. The challenge runs from Memorial Day Weekend (May 25 this year) through Labor Day Weekend (September 7) and… Read More ›

• Murder At The Mena House by Erica Ruth Neubauer

  By Chris Wolak on May 22, 2020 • ( 4 )

  

  “When selecting an exotic location for travel, it’s advisable to choose one where the air isn’t trying to kill you.”  So begins the first book in Erica Ruth Neubauer’s new historical mystery series featuring Jane Wunderly, a young American widow… Read More ›

• May 2020 Reminder for The Willa Cather Short Story Project

  By Chris Wolak on May 13, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  It’s the second Wednesday of the month, which means it’s time for another Willa Cather Short Story Project reminder post! Our story this month is “The Best Years.” This is the second of three stories that make up Cather’s posthumously… Read More ›

• Top 10 of 2016 (in 2020!)

  By Chris Wolak on May 11, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  Yes, you read that correctly. I’m sharing my top reads of 2016 in 2020. Why am I so late? I blame the presidential election and one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
  #BookBlogger

• May Reading List

  By Chris Wolak on May 3, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  My stack of hopefuls for May. Or, as I’ve seen others write on social media, my “May may(bes).” What’s on your reading list for May?

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