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"Lovely, Steve! I really enjoyed reading about your experience, and you've made me like Jane Eyre even more than I did before. :)
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Reader, I am smitten. Society claimed Jane Eyre lacked charm, beauty, and grace, but Charlotte Bronte trusted her readers and me to see beneath the surface to Jane’s bedrock integrity, intelligence, imagination, individualism, and generosity. Jane...
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"Tandie wrote: "What do you remember loving from school? I think the teacher makes a big difference. Also, in advanced classes, more of the students se...more
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles is not a feel-good book, which sharply sets it apart from the other 19th century novels about young women (think Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, for instance).
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"Derek wrote: "Mary wrote: "New to this group. "
Hi, Mary - are you stalking me? [actually, Mary raised LHOD in another group, and I said I'd just finis...more " |
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"Steve wrote: "Garima wrote: "Well Steve is smart, I'm the silly one ;):
That's funny, I had it figured the other way around. :-) Lynne wrote: "Is Sven r...more " |
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"Aloha wrote: "Oh, ten pages a week is very doable. Let me see what I'm supposed to be up to now."
That will be nice, Aloha, and, IIRC, you've got this...more " |
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in the poll What do you want to read for July 2013?
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...a hermit, a shadow, and a madman travel across a strange desert on a strange journey. near the end of his journey, the hermit will be tempted by a mysterious woman. along the way, the shadow decides he wants to become a man and so is instructed...
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Here we are again! Having read Chapman's Odyssey, it was soon clear that Richmond Lattimore's more clear, muscular-seeming but sometimes surprisingly understated verse would not be aiming for the elegant rhyming form I had become familiar with (if...
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“•"As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself, 'The last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And, sure enough, as I left the house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech.”
― Rowan Atkinson
― Rowan Atkinson
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
“Libraries are full of ghosts, books being the most haunted things of all.”
― Maya Panika
― Maya Panika
“A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
“For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
FLIGHTS OF FANCY (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Apr 22, 2013 05:44am
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Freeflow prose & poetry
Commentary on (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Mar 17, 2013 11:40am
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An attempt to argue towards an alternative interpretation to a work that is often interpreted as a Gothic ghost tale.
NOTES: ETHICS (Nonfiction)
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updated Feb 14, 2013 03:45am
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General notes on three areas of the practical applications of ethic: bioethics, environmental ethics, and business ethics.
NOTES: Infinite Jest (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Dec 11, 2012 04:11am
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I think it's going to be easier to put my notes where there is space for them.
Miévillians
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Club Miéville à la Goodreads. This is a club for people interested in discussing anything regarding the writer China Miéville; - his work, both fictio...more
The Kindred Spirits
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The Readers Review: Literature from 1800 to 1910
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This is a group for discerning readers looking to discover, explore, and critically discuss some of the World’s literature, with a primary emphasis on...more
Roberto Bolano's "The Savage Detectives"
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The place for members of JA+ to come together and discuss their latest and greatest reads.
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