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AmySorensen

nose in a book

My subject is the world.

Interests: running, writing, hiking, contemporary lit, good poetry; my family; gardening

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Book Review: You Have a Match by Emma Lord

It feels like something’s opened up to me—not only landscapes and sweeping views, but the future. It’s not clear, but it’s wider than I ever remember it feeling, full of possibility, of places I can go someday. Some YA books... Continue reading

Posted yesterday at The English Geek

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Thoughts on My Wedding Day, Twenty Nine Years Later

Not two years before I got married, I was a wild child. Driving my crappy but fast car as dangerously as I could, roaming around the valley with my friends at night, drinking, flirting with boys. Sluffing school. I was... Continue reading

Posted Feb 16, 2021 at The English Geek

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My Year in Books: The 2020 Edition

One of my yearly goals is to write something about every book I finish. (Sometimes I also write about the books I didn’t finish, but not often.) I’ve mostly accomplished this for the past five years, but 2020 was an... Continue reading

Posted Feb 12, 2021 at The English Geek

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Book Review: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune

We are who we are not because of our birthright, but because of what we choose to do in this life. It cannot be boiled down to black and whit. Not when there is so much in between. You cannot... Continue reading

Posted Feb 11, 2021 at The English Geek

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Bright Blue Moment

I was reading somewhere on Facebook yesterday about a writer. Someone had recommended this writer’s memoir to the commenter, and she read it and loved it, and then did some research about the writer and discovered that he keeps a... Continue reading

Posted Feb 2, 2021 at The English Geek

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Audio Book Review: The Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy by Laini Taylor

Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most... Continue reading

Posted Feb 1, 2021 at The English Geek

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Book Review: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin

All of that stuff is true. All the other worlds that human beings believe in, via group myths or spiritual visitations or even imaginations if they’re vivid enough, they exist. Imagining a world creates it, if it isn’t already there.... Continue reading

Posted Jan 25, 2021 at The English Geek

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Patchwork Forest, or How My Crafty Ambitions Spiraled Out of Control Once Again

Ever since I saw Amy Smart’s Christmas quilt called Patchwork Forest a couple of years ago, I have wanted to make one. (Seriously…look at her blog post and then search the hashtag on Instagram and tell me you don’t want... Continue reading

Posted Jan 18, 2021 at The English Geek

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Book Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (edited at the bottom)

"Ideas are so much wilder than memories." The Invisible Life of Addie Larue begins near the end of seventeenth-century in the small village of Villon, France, when young Adeline LaRue convinces her father to take her into the city with... Continue reading

Posted Jan 15, 2021 at The English Geek

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Book Review: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

“She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love,... Continue reading

Posted Jan 13, 2021 at The English Geek

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Thoughts on Glue and Fairy Wings: 2020 in Review

My Facebook memories reminded me of THIS POST I wrote last year, a summary of the previous decade. I had totally forgotten I wrote it, but rereading it made me stop and think. I have a selfie I took last... Continue reading

Posted Jan 1, 2021 at The English Geek

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Social Media as Performative Act

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about social media in all its forms, and its impact on my life. Clearly I haven’t been blogging much lately—honestly, I haven’t been writing much at all. There are many reasons for that, from... Continue reading

Posted Nov 30, 2020 at The English Geek

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The Blazing Purple F on My Back: Thoughts on Feminism, The Handmaid's Tale, and the Barrett Confirmation

I wrote this post based on the novel The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel, not the TV show. I haven’t watched the TV show. I probably never will watch the TV show. Nor have I read the sequel Atwood published last... Continue reading

Posted Oct 28, 2020 at The English Geek

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Scrapbooking is a Way I Tell the World I Loved It

I had the opportunity to record an episode of The Scrap Gals podcast. (It will be downloadable next week!) The topic: Your favorite scrapbook layout you’ve ever made. When Tracie told me the topic, two layouts immediately sprang to my... Continue reading

Posted Oct 9, 2020 at The English Geek

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Library Experiences in a COVID World

If you’ve read my blog for very long, follow me on Instagram, or know me in person, you know I believe that books can save your life. I believe in the power of the written word to help a reader... Continue reading

Posted Sep 22, 2020 at The English Geek

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My History with Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. Fifth grade was a difficult year for me. It... Continue reading

Posted Sep 17, 2020 at The English Geek

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Book Review: The Feminist Agenda of Jemima Kincaid by Kate Hattemer

“Of course she does. This is Jemima Kincaid we’re talking about.” “The girl who never forgets anything,” said Tyler. …I thought, Is that what my name means? … You walk around with a hazy idea, but you don’t often get... Continue reading

Posted Sep 15, 2020 at The English Geek

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Deep Thoughts about Scrapbooking

A few weeks ago, on a Sunday, Kendell and Jake went hiking on a Sunday morning. Because of my injured toe I haven’t been able to hike, and as Kendell was dying for a good mountain wander, Jake went with... Continue reading

Posted Sep 13, 2020 at The English Geek

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Bright Potential

On Friday, Kendell and I went to the wedding reception of the daughter of one of our couple friends. We’ve been friends with this family for, I don’t know…at least 25 years. This friendship was formed—like so many other friendships... Continue reading

Posted Aug 31, 2020 at The English Geek

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Thoughts on Sophomore Year

Last week when I dropped Kaleb off at his first day of high school, I had an unexpected reaction. Kaleb and I had a good conversation while we drove to school, mostly joking, and then he told me goodbye and... Continue reading

Posted Aug 29, 2020 at The English Geek

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Book Review: This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

They say that all the stars in the sky are actually made inside the earth. Then they seek out the roots of cottonwood trees and slip into the wood, where they wait, real patient. Inside the cottonwood, they’re dull and... Continue reading

Posted Aug 24, 2020 at The English Geek

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Thoughts on Remaking

Just a little over 17 years ago, I went out on a run in order to think. In order to make a decision: accept the teaching position that was offered to me or not? On the outside, it didn’t seem... Continue reading

Posted Aug 18, 2020 at The English Geek

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Book Review: The Wind through the Keyhole by Stephen King (The Dark Tower series)

The Wind through the Keyhole “It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I’ve found. You wouldn’t think it could be so, but—as the oldtimers used to say—the world’s tilted, and there’s an end to... Continue reading

Posted Aug 4, 2020 at The English Geek

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Book Review: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King (The Dark Tower series)

So do we pass the ghosts who haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically on the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The... Continue reading

Posted Aug 3, 2020 at The English Geek

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Book Review: Gather the Daughters (WITH SPOILERS!)

""If she could start her life over again, she decides, she would shout more. She would bite like the dream dogs. She wouldn’t be so scared of everything all the time. She wouldn’t come when Father called, she would stay... Continue reading

Posted Jul 20, 2020 at The English Geek

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