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There are lots of films from this year that I haven't seen yet--The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Take Shelter, for two--but I did see quite a few, and here are my picks.
1. The Tree of Life. This is a love it or hate it movie. I loved it. I was sometimes frustrated by Sean Penn stumbling about the city, looking up at the sky for unknown reasons, but everything else in it--even the dinosaur sc... read more »
1. The Tree of Life. This is a love it or hate it movie. I loved it. I was sometimes frustrated by Sean Penn stumbling about the city, looking up at the sky for unknown reasons, but everything else in it--even the dinosaur sc... read more »
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Clay's Quilt
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A Parchment of Leaves
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2002
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The Coal Tattoo: A Novel
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2004
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Eli the Good
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2009
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Same Sun Here
by Silas House , Neela Vaswani 3.95 avg rating — 172 ratings
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2012
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Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal
by Silas House, Lee Smith , Jason Howard (Goodreads Author) 4.42 avg rating — 53 ratings
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2009
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The Hurting Part: Evolution of an American Play
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2008
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Same Sun Here [With Earbuds]
by Silas House, Neela Vaswani 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Chinaberry
by James Still, Carol Boggess, Silas House 4.05 avg rating — 37 ratings
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2011
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Coal Country: Rising Up Against Mountaintop Removal Mining
by Shirley Stewart Burns , Mari-Lynn Evans , Silas House 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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2009
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“I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in my hand gave me some of the peace a tree possesses. To be like that-to just be-that's the most noble thing of all.”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves
“I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good
― Silas House, Eli the Good
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| Appalachian Leaves: Appalachian Writers Workshop | 1 | 19 | Jul 21, 2010 07:29pm | |
| Book Nook Cafe: What I read in July 2010 | 161 | 168 | Oct 03, 2010 01:20pm | |
| Gigi's Company: Author's Acquaintance | 90 | 75 | Oct 20, 2010 11:21am | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Mr. Pixel's 2010 Reads | 79 | 229 | Jan 07, 2011 01:15pm | |
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| Reading with Style: Reading w/Style Completed Tasks - Summer 2011 | 314 | 138 | Aug 31, 2011 09:09pm | |
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