What did you read this summer, besides Herodotus?

Should we now open this blog up for non-members to comment?

Do you know any good online book groups or websites devoted to reading?

What can the group or the library do to reach more potential members?

Is there an explanation of the poem that can account for Laura's inability to renew her experience in the goblin market?

How is Lizzie able to resist the goblins while Jeanie & Laura succumbed?

Why does Laura kiss Lizzie with a "hungry mouth," then loathe "the feast" (ll. 492 & 495, p. 157)?

What was the "bitterness without a name" that Laura "gorged on" (l. 510, p. 158)?

Why are we told so much about Lizzie & Laura's hair?

Was Laura right to tell this story to her young children (ll. 552 ff., p. 160)?

Why does the story begin with Yakolevich, Kovalev's barber, finding the nose in a loaf of bread?

Why do the first two parts end with the narrator declaring that matters become "befogged" or "beclouded?'

Why does Kovalev wake up to find his nose back in place, "as though nothing had happened?"

What was the motive of the policeman in causing the incident?

Why are told that Mr. Chiu is flea-proof (p. 9)?

Is this story a work of literature or of propaganda?