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| Excellent look behind the scenes of the processed food industry. Moss did an incredible amount of research and provides extremely interesting and surprising information from interviews with some of the biggest players in the food business. While the...more | |
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| Love the overall story, the prose, the wit. I probably would have given it 4 stars but some portions of the book seemed to drag, especially conversations with Lord Henry. I also felt like Dorian was really one-dimensional and artificial, rather than...more | |
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This one is difficult to rate. Eco transports the reader to medieval times, complete with sights, sounds and smells; you feel you are actually in a 14th century monastery. At times, it was a little too real for my 21st century sensibilities. There is...more |
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| I loved this book! This is the story of 6 different families over many generations. While the story is fiction, history comes alive on every page. You are there at the assembly of the Statue of Liberty, building of the Eiffel Tower, Victor Hugo's mem...more | |
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| Michael Pollan's books are always personal, well-researched and interesting. I especially enjoyed the sections on Water ( I just recently started cooking and using a dutch oven) and Air (I am taking a class on whole wheat sourdough bread). I'm going...more | |
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| The prose is beautiful and the juxtaposition of the three women's stories is a wonderful idea and masterfully done. The writing style is not unlike that of Virginia Woolf. One might wonder why I have given The Hours 3 stars and only 2 to poor Mrs. Da...more | |
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| I kept reading to the end because I was interested in how the cases would intersect and of course, wrap up. The cases were fairly interesting, but a lot of the topics really turned me off. I probably won't look for anything else by this author. | |
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"
"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.
"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"
"A pit full of fire."
"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"
"No, sir."
"What must you do to avoid it?"
I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.
"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"
"A pit full of fire."
"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"
"No, sir."
"What must you do to avoid it?"
I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
“Walking the stacks in a library, running your finger down the spines — it’s hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
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