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Why I Won’t Be Rating Books on Goodreads (or Anywhere Else) Anymore

This is likely not worth reading, but I’m going to write it anyway

Aug 26, 2021

Why I Won’t Be Rating Books on Goodreads (or Anywhere Else) Anymore

Aug 26, 2021

Terry Bain

I Didn’t Think I Was Going to Like This But I Am An Idiot

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Oct 23, 2021

Book cover for Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Oct 23, 2021

Terry Bain

How to Do Noticing

For today’s class, I asked my students to read How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell. It’s a transcript of her keynote by the same name.

Oct 11, 2021

Three Crows on a Wire

Oct 11, 2021

Terry Bain

A Book of Cats

Bid on it at Christie’s

Oct 6, 2021

Cat Drawing

Oct 6, 2021

Terry Bain

So I was right in the middle of reading Cloud Cuckoo Land when I accidentally started reading All…

I will have to do both, and they will speak to each other, as books are wont to do, and I will somehow mix them up like a bag full of quick…

Sep 15, 2021

So I was right in the middle of reading Cloud Cuckoo Land when I accidentally started reading All…

Sep 15, 2021

Terry Bain

Giving Voice to the Dead

About Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Sep 6, 2021

book cover for Lincoln in the Bardo, a novel by George Saunders

Sep 6, 2021

Terry Bain

Food for Thought

You can’t always get what you want, especially when what you want is more new stories in THE NEW YORKER

Sep 4, 2021

Cover of The New Yorker, people thinking about food they don’t have but want.

Sep 4, 2021

Terry Bain

A Poem is a Sofa Cushion, a Weed, a Three Day Old Sandwich in the Fridge

How to Grow Your Own Poem by Kate Clanchy

Aug 21, 2021

Book cover for How to Grow Your Own Poem by Kate Clanchy

Aug 21, 2021

Terry Bain

I Have Been Moved by a Work of Popular Fiction

About Reading Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Aug 5, 2021

Aug 5, 2021

Terry Bain

When I Am An Old Man I Shall Not Read Purple

Five things about This is How You Lose a Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

Aug 4, 2021

This Is How You Lose the Time War book cover.

Aug 4, 2021

Books, short stories, poems, love letters — things I’ve read. But mostly books. I’m Terry, by the way, and I’m trying to tear myself away from Goodreads because we all deserve better. Some links in The Pour Over are affiliate links. You have been warned.
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Terry Bain
Author: YOU ARE A DOG http://amzn.to/1GTUrXf & WE ARE THE CAT. Teacher. Artist. Quinquagenarian.
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