Mark My Words
Friday, January 16, 2026
The Best Books I Read in 2025
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I read 26 books in 2025, besting my Goodreads goal of 25 by one. Here are the b est books I read in 2025, in no particular order . Look...
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Book Review:
Letters to a Young Poet,
by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
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Letters to a Young Poet collects 10 letter s that the poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote to Franz Xaver Kappus from 1903 to 1908 . The boo...
Monday, January 12, 2026
Book Review:
The Natural,
by Bernard Malamud (1952)
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Bernard Malamud’s 1952 novel The Natural, about baseball player Roy Hobbs and his magical bat Wonderboy , is a very different piece o...
Friday, January 9, 2026
Movie Review:
Spirits of the Dead,
starring Jane Fonda, Alain Delon, Brigitte Bardot, and Terence Stamp (1968)
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Spirits of the Dead is an intense, surreal, sexy, stylish, fever dream of a film. Based on three short stories by Edgar Allen Poe, it’s ...
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