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In the Night Garden (The Orphan's Tales, #1) by Catherynne M. Valente bookshelves: currently-reading, speculative-fantastic-magical |
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe (hardcover) by Edgar Allan Poe bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Gnostic Gospels (Paperback) by Elaine Pagels bookshelves: currently-reading, gnosticism-mysticism-esotericism |
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In the Cities of Coin and Spice (The Orphan's Tales, #2) by Catherynne M. Valente bookshelves: speculative-fantastic-magical, to-read |
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In the Night Garden (The Orphan's Tales, #1) by Catherynne M. Valente bookshelves: currently-reading, speculative-fantastic-magical |
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The grotesque in photography (Paperback) by A.D. Coleman bookshelves: 1997-2000 |
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read in January, 1998
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Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (Paperback) by Diane Arbus bookshelves: 1997-2000 |
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Blank Generations Revisited: The Early Days of Punk Rock (Paperback) by George Dubose |
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The Passionate Observer: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten (Paperback) by Keith F. Davis bookshelves: 1997-2000 |
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read in January, 1999
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WWW: Wake (Www) by Robert J. Sawyer bookshelves: to-read |
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The Time Traveler's Wife (Paperback) by Audrey Niffenegger bookshelves: to-read |
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My Sister's Keeper (Paperback) by Jodi Picoult |
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read in June, 2009
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Lobeck's
review of My Sister's Keeper:
"this book is a shameless and unskillful manipulation of human emotions. i felt dirty when i was done with it. the story is on par with cheap natural disaster movies like deep impact that are formulated to tug at your heartstrings in very predictabl...more " | |
"The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting."
— Arthur Schopenhauer (The Works of Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life and Other Essays)
— Arthur Schopenhauer (The Works of Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life and Other Essays)
"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."
— Antonin Artaud
— Antonin Artaud
"I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself"
— Antonin Artaud (The Theater and Its Double)
— Antonin Artaud (The Theater and Its Double)
"In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?"
— Lewis Carroll (Through The Looking Glass)
Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?"
— Lewis Carroll (Through The Looking Glass)
"When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing."
— Katherine Dunn (Geek Love: A Novel)
— Katherine Dunn (Geek Love: A Novel)
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