Ryanne Molinari

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July 6, 2020

Summer Reading: July 2020

Does anyone else miss summer reading programs? Although I continue to read more during the summer than any other time of year, there was a great satisfaction to completing reading challenges and earning prizes which adult life sadly lacks. Still, I thought I would share what I’ve been reading lately—that is, when I am not Continue reading

A Bit of Light Reading, literary living, Literature

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August 30, 2014

The Importance of Being Literate

We live in a world of hashtags and texting abbreviations; gleeful laughter has been replaced by “LOL”, “carpe diem” has been killed by “YOLO”, words are being replaced by numbers 4 heaven’s sake! (That was painful, but consider my point made.) It seems I cannot go through one day without being confronted by enough grammatical atrocities to Continue reading

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