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The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel
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For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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Why Men Love Bitches by Sherry Argov
Kayla rated a book 2 of 5 stars
Our Enemies and Us by Ido Oren
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Season of Rains by Stephen Ellis
Kayla rated a book 2 of 5 stars
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs is a collection of essay "rants" on various pop culture phenomena. I'm not exactly sure how to review this book, because in doing so I think it would only be fair to judge it in its entirety. Unfortunately, I don't think th...more
Kayla rated a book 5 of 5 stars
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl is hands down, one of the most skilled and imaginative writers ever. I loved his books when I was a kid (he helped me through many grade school book reports) and Matilda was a particular favorite of mine. Matilda is the story of a precocio...more
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D.H. Lawrence
“She could just distinguish his features, as he slept the perfect sleep. In this darkness, she seemed to see him so distinctly. But he was far off, in another world. Ah, she could shriek with torment, he was so far off, and perfected, in another world. She seemed to look at him as at a pebble far away under clear dark water. And here was she, left with all the anguish of consciousness, whilst he was sunk deep into the other element of mindless, remote, living shadow-gleam. He was beautiful, far-off, and perfected. They would never be together. Ah, this awful, inhuman distance which would always be interposed between her and the other being! There was nothing to do but to lie still and endure. She felt an overwhelming tenderness for him, and a dark, under-stirring of jealous hatred, that he should lie so perfect and immune, in an other-world, whilst she was tormented with violent wakefulness, cast out in the outer darkness.”
D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

Hunter S. Thompson
“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”
Hunter S. Thompson

D.H. Lawrence
“I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.”
D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

Sylvia Plath
“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.”
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Shel Silverstein
“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It