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read in February, 2010
Claire S said:
"Seems like potentially the perfect antidote to my current conundrum of hard-to-read Great Literature ala my daughter's class, and tedious Mom-sourced current novels.. And starts out engagingly interestingly!
I've wanted to get around to this for so l...more "
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"2nd _: Love it. It's like visiting and old friend. In an interview, Chakram talks of his younger sister who says: Don't Bore Me! He doesn't." — Mar 02, 2010 04:14am
"2nd _: Love it. It's like visiting and old friend. In an interview, Chakram talks of his younger sister who says: Don't Bore Me! He doesn't." — Mar 02, 2010 04:14am
Claire S
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by James Joyce
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"And the 2nd story, 2nd of 3 from child's perspective - also involving scary man. Hmmm.." — Dec 08, 2009 06:41am
"And the 2nd story, 2nd of 3 from child's perspective - also involving scary man. Hmmm.." — Dec 08, 2009 06:41am
Claire S
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by James Joyce
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Would my ancestors have read him? Have known about him even? Hmm
Claire S said:
"How did I never run into Joyce at any level in approximately 24 years of some-kind-of-schooling going on? I mean, I heard of him, but not through school at all I don't think. So wrong. So so so wrong. I believe he's only within my radar now due to Go...more "
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"Finished first part, about a fifth. Wow, very enveloping and rich.." — Dec 06, 2009 05:07pm
"Finished first part, about a fifth. Wow, very enveloping and rich.." — Dec 06, 2009 05:07pm
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The Inferno
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Ok, I'm officially giving up. Yes, I agree with my daughter that it's cool how the punishments fit the crime - like for theives, their own actual human form keeps getting stolen and they are forced to shape-shift into reptilian form and back. Awesome....more |
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Kennedy's Brain
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page turner.. But unfortunately, in a way similar to Twin Peaks... much mystery, much darkness, much potential being alluded to---- then it ends with nothing of substance actually truly revealed. Everything that maybe was this or that still is *maybe*...more |
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"Oh, ok. Yes, looking forward to it! I think my translations are supposed to be good too (one reviewer said *better* than Ciardi in fact!), but I may g...more
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“The argument that Saddam Hussein was a bad man and had to be removed simply won't do. There are many bad men around the world who run countries and we don't topple them, and, indeed, in earlier years we actually supported Saddam Hussein when he was fighting Iran. The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and an unacceptable argument for regime change.”
― John Major
― John Major
“It was as if his eye were an ear and a crackle went through it each time he shot a look at the accordion. ...
The notes fell, biting and sharp; it seemed the tooth that bit was hollowed with pain. ”
― E. Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes
The notes fell, biting and sharp; it seemed the tooth that bit was hollowed with pain. ”
― E. Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes
“If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest -- like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort, remaining what it was implacably -- was out of their hands, beyond.”
― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
“India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it, twisting it, molding it beyond recognition. India, she had found out, was a place of political intrigue and economic corruption, a place occupied by real people with their incessantly human needs, desires, ambitions, and aspirations, and not the exotic, spiritual, mysterious entity that was a creation of the Western imagination.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The Weight of Heaven
― Thrity Umrigar, The Weight of Heaven
“Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.”
― Marge Piercy, The Longings of Women
― Marge Piercy, The Longings of Women
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