bookshelves: 2009
On the whole, barely worth it -- a handful of really really good stories "Her First Elk," and the title story come to mind. Most though, failed for me, the settings seemed real, the characters not. ]]>
Robert
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"People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives." — Marilynne Robinson
"People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives." — Marilynne Robinson
Robert
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"I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it." — Marilynne Robinson
"I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it." — Marilynne Robinson
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bookshelves: 2009
This was more interesting for the story of the story -- Edgar Wallace's life and the bankrupting contest he sponsored for the book -- than for the story itself. However, that story was interesting, a Sherlock Holmes story without a memorable Holmes but with the same atmosphere, and a bit more suspense. It's also very short, so I found it well worth the time to read. ]]>
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