Tag: Research
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Boswell Freaks Only. Yale’s Trade and Research Editions Compared
You a Boswell Freak? Here’s a test: how much detail can you read and keep your eyes open. I’m comparing Yale’s Trade and Research editions of James Boswell’s journals. To the ordinary reader this may sound deathly boring, but Boswell nuts dig this kind of stuff. It’s long. Click. Read.
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How Many of Your Books Have You Read?
The parents-in-law came for dinner on Hogmanay and my wife’s father pointed at one of our bookcases and asked: “Have you read all of these books?” That’s the eternal power of the father-in-law…to question, but secretly critique. How does one respond? Read the post.