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"Slowly making my way through - finally understanding correct exposure but need to find time to play around with manual settings, take them back to computer and examine differences. Good thing we've postponed next trip to France until next year so I have to to get this sorted before I want to really call upon my skillz!" — Apr 27, 2013 08:57am
"Slowly making my way through - finally understanding correct exposure but need to find time to play around with manual settings, take them back to computer and examine differences. Good thing we've postponed next trip to France until next year so I have to to get this sorted before I want to really call upon my skillz!" — Apr 27, 2013 08:57am
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"Yes, I can see why this was a literary darling. Which isn't to say I thought it was well written. I thought it was a mess. A mean, ugly, unfunny mess....more
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i confess: giving this book even two stars is a struggle. i was ready to like it, to praise its finely crafted prose - until maybe 50 pages in, when i started to feel some serious reading fatigue from all the Finely Crafted Prose (emphatic capital...
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"Chris wrote: "I usually don't stick with books either with book club, but do give them a good try. But with short stories, I kept hoping the next one...more
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is on page 260 of 397 of Swamplandia!: Home stretch. Hasn't gotten any better. This should have been a comic book, not a novel. Gack.
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So where did Swamplandia! go wrong? Was it the point at which the narrative branches off into two tracks, following the separate adventures of the protagonist's wayward brother? Was it the inclusion of a play-within-the-play, suddenly covering the...
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“But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White
― E.B. White
“Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle.”
― Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
― Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
“Yet, the quest for knowledge will overcome us and we must know. And, at last, we must see where the road ends, even if it be the cliff.”
― Nancy B. Brewer, Garnet
― Nancy B. Brewer, Garnet
“You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.”
― Billy Collins
― Billy Collins
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