Posted on September 1, 2022
by Adam Burgess
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Hello readers! August 2022 at Roof Beam Reader was devoted to all things Jane Austen. I was, however, doing a lot of reading that was not Austen or Austen-related, so I thought I’d share a quick recap of that reading here, with teeny tiny… Continue Reading “What I Read in August 2022”
Category: 2022 TBR Pile Challenge, Addiction, American History, Buddhism, chinese, Chinese Literature, Contemporary, Darren Littlejohn, Eliot Schrefer, Fantasy, Gregory D. Smithers, History, Kang Han, Laos, LGBT, LGBTQ History, Mindfulness, Native American, Poetry, Richard Siken, Sam Sax, Science-Fiction, South Korean, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Tommy Pico, two-spirit, Wallace Stevens, Women In Translation, Xiran Jay Zhao, Young Adult
Posted on February 28, 2022
by Adam Burgess
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I have long wanted to read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States; in fact, I think I’ve owned my copy for at least a decade. Many things kept me from picking it up, from its length to the fact that it’s… Continue Reading “A People’s History of the United States”
Posted on September 3, 2020
by Adam Burgess
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Hello, my beloveds. Long time no see! My apologies for the absence. I’m sure many of you, like me, have been struggling with the continued pandemic, the back-to-school season, and the rather horrifying events taking place around the United States and the world, not… Continue Reading “August, #TheSealeyChallenge, and More”
Category: Blog Post, Book Review, Buddhism, Carlos Bulosan, Craig Moreau, D.A. Powell, Eduardo C. Corral, History, Joseph O. Legaspi, Joy Harjo, Ocean Vuong, Poetry, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Sam Sax, The Sealey Challenge, Thich Nhat Hanh, Tommy Pico
Posted on May 14, 2020
by Adam Burgess
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Peter Watson’s The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God is a book that I had long wanted to read and one that took me about as long to actually read it, after finally getting my hands on… Continue Reading “The Age of Atheists”
Posted on July 5, 2018
by Adam Burgess
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In this fourth “potpour-reads” post, I put together some thoughts on three classics, including two works of fiction and one of non-fiction. The first fiction classic is classified by Penguin as a “modern classic” and is sometimes categorized further into “young adult,” although I… Continue Reading “The Outsiders, The Godfather, and A Little History”
Category: Book Review, Classics, E.H. Gombrich, Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Mario Puzo, Non-Fiction, Potpour-reads, S.E. Hinton, Young Adult
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