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The Curiosity of ...

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The Iliad
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by Homer
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"All done. The introduction was interesting, although it's one of those things about which entire books could (and have) been written. My review will take some time--I have something special planned." May 29, 2011 07:17pm

 

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Ben Babcock made a comment on his review of In Darkness
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"I already returned it to the school library."
The Curiosity of School by Zander Sherman
" It's funny that when I borrowed this book from my school's library, the employee who saw my book choice just said "School?" as if it was the most boring subject in the world to actually read about.


As it turns out, school has quite the strange hist...

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The Curiosity of School: Education and the Dark Side of Enlightenment
Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
" This was a fast read, and I very much enjoyed it! If you are already a Hardy fan, I heartily recommend reading A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873); if you aren't, this just might make you one. A Pair of Blues Eyes was the third novel published by Hardy, an... " Read more of this review »
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
" The Shining Girls is a murder mystery with an unforgettably original premise. The killer it centres on, Harper Curtis, enters a ramshackle building in 1930s Chicago and finds something very different on the inside. 'The House' is lavishly decorate... " Read more of this review »
Ben Babcock wants to read
Empress by Karen Miller
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"I think the problem I had with Use of Weapons isn’t a problem with the book itself so much as a conflict between the book as a narrative experiment an...more "
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
" Basic premise rundown: Tired of a lifetime of war and interference, former Special Circumstances agent Cheradenine Zakalwe is trying to retire and disappear off the grid -- but the Culture isn't done with him yet. So his handler Diziet Sma (and he... " Read more of this review »
Ben Babcock wants to read
The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Summer Prince
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Carol Shields
“This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.”
Carol Shields, Unless

Jane Austen
“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
Jane Austen, Persuasion

Charles Dickens
“I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

John Milton
“As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.”
John Milton, Areopagitica

Bill Bryson
“In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.”
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

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2013 Reading Challenge
Ben Babcock
Ben Babcock has read 47 books toward his goal of 140 books.
 
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2012 Reading Challenge
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