How to Read

Reading is food for the brain. Like feeding goldfish, it should be done every day, sprinkled lightly, gobbled up. Those who read well and often, succeed. But it is not just reading words. Words have their subtlety. Words can be ambiguous. Words can even deceive, if you receive them with credulity. Was what the snake…

My Ántonia

My Ántonia Ántonia is, of course, Ántonia Shimerda, a twelve year old immigrant girl from Bohemia with big brown eyes and wavy hair, when we first meet her. Ask different people what they remember of Willa Cather’s My Antonia and they will tell you different things. It depends, one supposes, on whether one grew up…