Alika Yarnell's profile
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Alika
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Kafka on the Shore (Paperback) by Haruki Murakami bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Alika Yarnell
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My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles (Paperback) by Jane Bowles bookshelves: fiction |
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| June 13 | ||||
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Alika Yarnell
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Ryan's
review of My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles:
"Joy Williams writes the intro to this collection, and I can see why she reveres Bowles. The biting humor is similar, the sense of alienation, the way weird shit just happens to the protagonists. Both authors' plots are compilations of madcap episod...more " | |||
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Alika Yarnell
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"I love this book so much I'm starting over with a pencil. " | |||
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Alika Yarnell
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The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer (Mass Market Paperback) by Harvey Karp bookshelves: non-fiction |
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read in April, 2009
Alika said:
"A really good, easy-reading book on learning about the "4th trimester" and the "five s's." I don't say this often, but if you can track down the DVD version of this book, you might not need to read it.
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Alika Yarnell
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Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife (Paperback) by Peggy Vincent bookshelves: memoir-autobiography, non-fiction |
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Alika Yarnell
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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein
— Albert Einstein
"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
— Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking-Glass)
— Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking-Glass)
Raindrop Parade (Literature & Fiction)
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updated 05/28/2008 06:32PM
description:
It is 1986, before email and mobile phones, and we follow Sable throughout her sophomore year of high school grappling with modes of communication. She can’t explain why she doesn’t have any real friends despite her close proximity with her classmates. We see her dangerous encounters with fire, sex, criminal behavior, alcohol, a partial skeleton, voyeurism, and the dark and mysterious places in which she often finds herself—intentionally or otherwise. She invents projects to help her piece her world together, searching for clues around the “outlets” of her town. These clues are anything she feels is mysterious and meaningful that can somehow help her to find her place in the world and the tribe of friends she longs to be with. She is especially attached to a quartz crystal which contains triangle etchings that she believes carry messages for her sent from another world.
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With hints of Daniel Clowes’ Ghost World and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Raindrop Parade is charged with fascination, sexuality, curiosity, longing, and fear, with a paranormal cherry on top. Through the episodic chapters, we latch onto Sable’s sharp, idiosyncratic voice, which tells a genre-bending story with an ’80s soundtrack in the background. On one level, it’s a coming-of-age mystery as we see teenagers struggle with identity and finding their place in the world. On another level, it’s a complex metaphysical love story based on uncertainty and obsession. It’s about searching for solutions to unsolvable riddles and the ramifications of inventing answers to the unexplained. Is it admirable to find meaning in everything? What happens when answers are based on misunderstanding? How does love, in all its many forms, fit in with the quest for purpose? Sable aims to find out, her quirks and subtle charms leading the way.
Whole Blood (Literature & Fiction)
10 chapters
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updated 05/28/2008 06:16PM
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How a new color affects one man's quest for love.
Ear Scars (Literature & Fiction)
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updated 05/28/2008 06:03PM
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"Ear Scars" was originally published in February 2008 (Issue 161) of Thieves Jargon.
Sugarhouse (Literature & Fiction)
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updated 05/28/2008 06:01PM
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“Sugarhouse” was originally published in the Spring 2005 issue of Switchback.
S (Literature & Fiction)
More of Alika's writing…
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updated 05/28/2008 05:54PM
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This award-winning short story was published in the Spring 2005 issue of Backwards City Review.
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