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Midway through David Thomson’s meandering and (self-) reflective history of world cinema, The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us, he discusses British director David Lean’s classic film Brief Encounter, a “woman’s film” about an adulterous affair. Thomson is mystified by the film’s “tacit admission of women’s tragic position, whereas in Lean’s best-loved films (The Brid...
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The Center of Things
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No Ordinary Matter
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A Man of No Moon: A Novel
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Girls: Ordinary Girls and Their Extraordinary Pursuits
by Jenny McPhee (Goodreads Author), Laura McPhee, Martha McPhee (Goodreads Author) — published 2000 |
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Doodgewone dingen
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Canone Inverso
by Paolo Maurensig, Jenny McPhee (Goodreads Author) — published 1996 — 14 editions |
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Crossing the Threshold of Hope
by John Paul II, Martha McPhee (Goodreads Author), Jenny McPhee (Goodreads Author) — published 1994 — 31 editions |
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Having studied medical anthropology a decade after this book was written, I think I was astounded at the division between biomedicine and traditional medicine and the repeated inflexibility to find a holistic practice that acknowledged cultural di...
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I DIED FOR BEAUTY: DOROTHY WRINCH AND THE CULTURES OF SCIENCE What is it that drives a human being to pursue an idea to death? To make order out of chaos, to please, impress, defy, or outdo a parent, to win a Nobel Prize, to attain immortality, to fin...more |
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Me too, Kris. Just noticed you and I were born on the same day! (with a five year gap in your favor). Much in common....
Thanks so much for the friend request, Jenny! I see a lot of overlap in our shelves already. I'm looking forward to reading more of your reviews and to having some great discussions with you.
i love the movie too, and didn't even know it was a book, found it by accident at the bookstore. but the book is really different; it's not as glossy or romantic, and is told from different POVs. it's the kinda book that makes me wish i was back in college so i could write a paper about it. i hope you like it! also vera caspary sounds like a really interesting person and apparently wrote a ton.
That's great -- I love coincidences like that. :)