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Parable of the Sower 07/03 Siria is currently reading:
Parable of the Sower (Hardcover)
by Octavia E. Butler
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Foucault's Pendulum 06/17 Siria is currently reading:
Foucault's Pendulum (Paperback)
by Umberto Eco
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Canterbury Tales 05/08 Siria is currently reading:
Canterbury Tales (Poetry Library)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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July 03
Parable of the Sower Siria is currently reading:
Parable of the Sower (Hardcover)
by Octavia E. Butler
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Grace and Truth Siria gave 3 of 5 stars to:
Grace and Truth (Paperback)
by Jennifer Johnston
bookshelves: 21st-century, irish-fiction
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read in July, 2009

Siria Siria said: "Johnston always writes fluidly and elegantly, and I always find that her novels are very humane ones in the fullest sense of the word—books which take a wry, sardonic but not an unkind look at the best and worst of human emotion. Quite an Irish vie...more "
July 02
The Namesake Siria gave 3 of 5 stars to:
The Namesake (Paperback)
by Jhumpa Lahiri
bookshelves: 21st-century, american-fiction, by-poc
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read in July, 2009

Siria Siria said: "Lahiri's prose is beautifully elegant, concise and quiet and smooth. She has such a gift for detail, for noting the small aspects of everyday life and weaving them subtly into her narrative, that The Namesake is never anything less than a pleasure to...more "
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Siria made a comment on Trin's review of Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
115473 Siria wrote: "Ooh, I'm impressed! I'm sure if you can conquer this, I can steel myself to finish Foucault's Pendul...more "

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July 01
Gemini Siria gave 3 of 5 stars to:
Gemini (House of Niccolo)
by Dorothy Dunnett
bookshelves: 20th-century, british-fiction, historical-fiction
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read in July, 2009

Siria Siria said: "There are times when Gemini reads a little too much as if it is a 700 page long epilogue to the Niccoló series, especially in the middle of the novel when Dunnett is working hard to make her narrative fit with historical fact, and everything seems t...more "
June 24
Norwegian Wood Siria gave 5 of 5 stars to:
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by Haruki Murakami
bookshelves: 20th-century, by-poc, japanese-fiction
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read in June, 2009

Siria Siria said: "(Cate, I don't think this book is for you.)

Much more straightforward than many of Murakami's novels—there's none of his trademark magical realism—Norwegian Wood is still a complex tale of maturation and loneliness in 1960s Tokyo. For ...more
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June 21
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Siria made a comment on Jenn's review of Rampant
115473 Siria wrote: "... killer carnivorous unicorns? o.o "

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June 19
Blind Willow, Sleepi... Siria gave 4 of 5 stars to:
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Paperback)
by Haruki Murakami
bookshelves: 21st-century, by-poc, japanese-fiction, short-stories
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read in November, 2008

Siria Siria said: "This collection of stories has all the hallmarks of Murakami's writing: strange, whimsical, funny (in both ha-ha and peculiar forms) and sometimes bewildering. As with all short story collections, some of them seemed to have been included just to com...more "
Inés of My Soul Siria gave 3 of 5 stars to:
Inés of My Soul (Hardcover)
by Isabel Allende
bookshelves: 21st-century, by-poc, chilean-fiction, historical-fiction
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read in November, 2008

Siria Siria said: "Allende writes enjoyable and entertainingly, but in Inés of my Soul she is nowhere near at her best. In a book about not just the conquistadors of Chile, but a conquistadora, it's unsurprising that plot and melodramas, politics and romance would tak...more "
White Teeth Tv Tie I... Siria gave 4 of 5 stars to:
White Teeth Tv Tie In (Paperback)
by Zadie Smith
bookshelves: 20th-century, british-fiction, by-poc
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read in January, 2005

Siria Siria said: "White Teeth has definite weaknesses—there are places where the tone wavers into over-zealousness, the characterisation isn't always believable, and I found the ending rather disappointing. For all that, this is a remarkable first novel, written with ...more "
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Ursula K. Le Guin
"If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what have you, and then take it home with you, home being another, larger kind of pouch or bag, a container for people, and then later on you take it out and eat it or share it or store it up for winter in a solider container or put it in the medicine bundle or the shrine or the museum, the holy place, the area that contains what is sacred, and then the next day you probably do much the same again—if to do that is human, if that's what it takes, then I am a human being after all. Fully, freely, gladly, for the first time....

[T]he proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us."

—"The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction"
Ursula K. Le Guin (Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places)












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