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August 12
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Kendra
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (paperback)
by Italo Calvino
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Kendra said:
"If on a winter's night a traveler is clearly written by a seasoned writer and perhaps best read by a seasoned reader. It is meta-writing that results in meta-reading, with the main character always referred to as "you". We are offered not j...more
If on a winter's night a traveler is clearly written by a seasoned writer and perhaps best read by a seasoned reader. It is meta-writing that results in meta-reading, with the main character always referred to as "you". We are offered not just examples of different writing styles, and different book styles, but a clear, almost pedantic look at what devices can be and are used in writing. Later, this translates into the styles of reading, the whole think culminating in the question "What do you want from your experience?"
If you like to read simply for reading's sake, if you love or hate literary criticism, if you are an aspiring writer yourself, then this is a book you must read....less
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Kendra
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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by Haruki Murakami
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read in June, 2008
Kendra said:
"There are two things about Murakami that I love. Likely that's a lie: there are more. But we'll say there are two. The first thing is his poeticism. I think that it is a combination of his own interesting abilities and the simple differences between ...more
There are two things about Murakami that I love. Likely that's a lie: there are more. But we'll say there are two. The first thing is his poeticism. I think that it is a combination of his own interesting abilities and the simple differences between languages that creates, in translation, such beautiful phrases, such incredible images. The other thing that I love about Murakami is his ability to write successfully about nothing. Someone young asked me about this book while I was reading it and trying to explain it to a 12-year-old proved incredibly difficult. "It's about this guy who... well, he loses his cat and quits his job...?" "So he has to find his cat?" she asked. "Well, no... It's not really about the cat." It's hard to explain that the truth is, the book isn't really *about* anything. It's a discussion of modernity, of the loneliness it produces and it's a little bit about how everyone is a whore. It's beautiful and it resonates and it asks questions it doesn't answer. What more could one want?...less
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June 28
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February 12
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Kendra
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Siddhartha (Paperback)
by Hermann Hesse
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Kendra
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Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
by Allen Ginsberg
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Kendra
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by Tom Stoppard
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January 03
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Kendra
is currently reading:
The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (Hardcover)
by Michael Chabon
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Kendra
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Beyond the Deepwoods (Edge Chronicles, Book 1)
by Paul Stewart
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read in December, 2007
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Kendra
is currently reading:
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (Meridian)
by Walter Kaufmann
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August 30
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Kendra
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The Da Vinci Code (Paperback)
by Dan Brown
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