Read Slowly.
Live Deliberately.
One book at a time.
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On today’s post: Thoughts on Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, plus September’s two project reads: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen and Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward! Check it out: https://theadamburgess.substack.com/p/jane-austen-and-jesmyn-ward
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Lose Not Your Beating Heart
Dear Friend, “Response is my strategy. Endless responses.” Shocking Statistics I spend a lot of time talking with my students about the three rhetorical appeals…
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To Be Found in the Openness
Dear Friend, “What does it mean to want a thing to change, but then feel bullied by that change?” Big Little Lies There’s a stumbling…
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To Call Forward a Yearning
Dear Friend, What If? ‘How does one say / what if / without reproach?” (5) Claudia Rankine’s Just Us: An American Conversation begins with a…
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Justice not Just for Us
Dear Friend, My first experience with Claudia Rankine was reading Citizen: An American Lyric. In my review for that collection, I wrote, “Rankine’s genius is…
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The Contemplative Reading Project, hosted by Dr. Adam Burgess, is a quest to read slowly & live deliberately. I invite you to join me in this journey!
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