December 31, 2017
by jenniferpuryear
Book Titles: 1Q84, Matterhorn, A Suitable Boy, Seveneves, God is an Englishman
Friday’s Bacon featured a year’s worth of nonfiction reads for 2018. Today’s post offers only one recommendation for fiction readers: if you haven’t devoted yourself to a big brick of a novel lately – one that could be used as a doorstop or weapon – make this the year! I just finished Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 and might open an extra bottle of champagne. I’ve been dragging …
August 12, 2014
by jenniferpuryear
Book Title: The Housekeeper and the Professor
University School of Nashville math teacher and all-round great guy Joel Bezaire recommended some summer reading for me a while back: The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yoko Ogawa. I’ve since learned that Ogawa’s novel is also the Harpeth Hall all-school read this year! This book highlights the beauty, enchantment, and mystery of math. Did I really just say that? It does so through the story …