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Another round of reading: "At the Fights" and other notes

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Like most of you, I have been trying to find ways to fill the days. There has been work, still, as I struggle to teach online, and the bride wrangles church work.We've been catching up on home projects, or starting new ones. Yesterday I put together new porch furniture we ordered -- although it won't be going outside until after an expected windstorm has passed. We have posters to put up in one of the rooms, and may have figured out the wall arrangement; we're one frame order away from getting that done. I reconfigured some things on the walls in my room. There has been TV watching -- Little Fires Everywhere, the completely nutty season premiere of The Good Fight, a slow binge through Rizzoli and Isles (easy to kill time when the brain demands little, but not something that I  feel guilty about watching) and, recently, a march through the Fast and the Furious movies, seeing the transition from a movie that took itself seriously to one that saw amusement in its core to th...

Winter reading

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When I was in college, between the end of Christmas break and the first-semester exams was  Reading Period, about 10 days where students were given a chance to prepare for their tests. These days, I still have a Reading Period of sorts, between Christmas and the resumption of my teaching at the University of Akron, when I just dive into books. The current stack is above. It's not that I cannot read the rest of the time; before tackling my post-holiday reading, I spent happy time with an advance copy of The Sopranos Sessions , a detailed examination of the landmark series by my friends Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz, which is officially available in a week. I also read Thomas E. Ricks 's Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom, and dipped into the Library of America's collection of Carson McCullers' s Stories, Plays and Other Writings, which LOA had made available at a nice discount. For a school project, earlier in the fall, I had read Tara Westov...