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08/15
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback) by Gabriel García Márquez bookshelves: currently-reading |
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08/01
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Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (Love and Rockets) by Gilbert Hernandez bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Mademoiselle de Maupin (Penguin Classics) by Théophile Gautier |
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Katie said:
"For all the romance and passion described, there is a certain coldness to the novel that prevented me from ever becoming fully involved.
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback) by Gabriel García Márquez bookshelves: currently-reading |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Hardcover) by Gabriel García Márquez |
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recommended to Katie by:
Laurence
recommended for: EVERYONE read in August, 2008
Katie said:
"Honestly - really this time - the best book I have ever read. Of course I expected it to be powerful, well written, and deeply affecting; the Nobel prize isn't just handed to any upstart author who writes interesting stories. But what I never expecte...more
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Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories (Love and Rockets) by Gilbert Hernandez bookshelves: currently-reading |
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| May 20 | ||||
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The Lottery: And Other Stories (Paperback) by Shirley Jackson |
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"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; " — Alexander Pope | |||
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Katie
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"You can never be overdressed or overeducated." — Oscar Wilde | |||
Katie's favorite quotes
"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
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— Alexander Pope
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
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— Alexander Pope
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"The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it."
— Evelyn Waugh
— Evelyn Waugh
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