Marilynne Robinson

Welcome to the 'Marilynne Robinson' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Marilynne Robinson'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Marilynne Robinson”

• “Holiday” Reading

  
  AndiLit.com — Authority: 117
  I’ve been thinking a lot about reading lately because, to be honest, I don’t see people doing much of it lately. My students don’t really read - even the stuff they’re assigned - and I don’t see other people reading much either. The other day, Dave and I were on the Metro, and I honestly did not see a ...
  2 days ago

• 8 Awesome Books By Women: An 00s Virtual Bookshelf

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 806
  This isnt a list of the best books of the decade — Ive already made it clear how I feel about those . Its just a selection of especially awesome books by women, all published in the 00s. Fun Home Alison Bechdel , 2006 I think the popularity of the term "graphic novel" is really unfortunate, because ...
  3 days ago

• Artsy gift ideas with a family theme

  
  LK Hunsaker: Literarily Indie — Authority: 114
  Today’s ideas focus on the family. To start off, I’m suggesting one of my favorite mainstream authors, Marilynne Robinson. I first started reading Robinson’s work as a “have to” for a college class. The book was titled Housekeeping which I have to say made me roll my eyes. The title, however, is so ...
  1 week ago

• Ann Donald’s Best Fiction Reads 2009

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 479
  Topping Ann Donald’s list of best fiction reads for 2009, as “fiction book of the year”, is Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize winning Wolf Hall . Congratulations to the four local authors on the list, among them BOOK SA bloggers Margie Orford and Kevin Bloom . But I want to write about the books that I ...
  1 week ago

• Holiday Book Bonanza ‘09: Rupert Thomson

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 534
  By Kirsty McHugh, OUP UK It has become a holiday tradition on the OUPblog to ask our favorite people about their favourite books. This year we asked authors to participate (OUP authors and non-OUP authors). For the next two weeks we will be posting their responses which reflect a wide variety of tastes and ...
  1 week ago

• "I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of..."

  
  Bunker Complex — Authority: 562
  “I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected - an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There never had been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was ...
  1 week ago

• Lessons in Honesty - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

  
  AndiLit.com — Authority: 117
  On average, I commute about 700 miles a week. I hate it - all that greenhouse gas spewing from my exhaust pipe, all that time just moving forward, all that confinement in a bubble of glass and metal - but this is the lot I have given myself in for the next few weeks. (Next term, I plan to be considerable less ...
  2 weeks ago

• Happy Birthday Marilynne Robinson!

  
  The Big Read Blog — Authority: 120
  November 27, 2009 Washington, DC Marilynne Robinson read from her most recent novel, Home , at the 2009 National Book Festival in Washington, DC. Photo by Tom Roster. HAPPY BIRTHDAY  (a day late) to Housekeeping author Marilynne Robinson! Today I’m pondering this quote from Robinson’s second novel, the ...
  3 weeks ago

• WHAT PAGE ARE YOU ON?

  
  The Big Read Blog — Authority: 120
  November 24, 2009 Washington, DC   “Untitled” by Svet via Flickr Creative Commons ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/svet/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ) Regardless of genre, length, historical epoch, setting, or other variables, what each of the Big Read titles has in common is sheer sticking power. It puts me in mind of ...
  3 weeks ago

• I Am Never Not Instructed

  
  Adiaphora — Authority: 431
  “By the standards of my generation, all my life I have gone to church with a kind of persistence, as I do to this day. Once recently I found myself traveling all night to be home in time for church, and it occurred to me to consider in what spirit or out of what need I would do such a thing. My tradition does not ...
  4 weeks ago

• Religion: Fuse It, or Lose It

  
  Rodak Riffs... — Authority: 127
  X The following excerpt is taken from Marilynne Robinson’s* preface to the Vintage Spiritual Classics volume, John Calvin, Steward of God’s Covenant, Selected Writings . Robinson’s preface serves not only to introduce Calvin to the reader, but also as a brief apologia for Protestantism and the Reformation. As ...
  4 weeks ago

• on the night stand

  
  signs of life — Authority: 119
  In the days before we adopted our son I asked those of you book-loving parents to chime in with your reading tips .  I was particularly interested in how you find time to read with the (wonderful) addition of children.  You had some great suggestions and as we near the seven month mark as parents I’m happy to ...
  4 weeks ago

Comments about Marilynne Robinson