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Laurax is now friends with Shawn
May 07, 2013 12:18pm
Laurax added: In the Language of Love: A Novel in 100 Chapters by Diane Schoemperlen read in December, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jan 03, 2013 07:22am
Laurax liked Kaijsa's review of Gone Girl: " This book thoroughly annoyed me, partly because the characters were so frustrating, partly because the story took about 100 pages longer to tell than it deserved, but mostly because I couldn't stop reading it. "
Dec 11, 2012 10:25am · see review
Laurax added: The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang read in October, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dec 11, 2012 10:24am
Laurax added: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author) read in August, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dec 11, 2012 10:24am
Laurax added: The Killer Is Dying: A Novel by James Sallis read in August, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Laurax joined the The Amazing Adventures of the (I)CPL Library Workers Union group.
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Laurax added: The City and the City by China Miéville (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Aug 02, 2012 10:04am
Laurax added: Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel read in July, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Aug 02, 2012 10:04am
Laurax marked as to-read: By the Iowa Sea: A Memoir of Disaster and Love by Joe Blair	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jun 20, 2012 08:27am

More of Laurax's books…

“Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to point to themselves and materialize. With their back-formations, archaisms, their tendency to play the music in words--rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition--children peel the skin from language. Words become incantatory. Open Sesame. Abracadabra. Perhaps a child will remember the word and will bring the walls tumbling down.”
― John Edgar Wideman

tags: brothers-and-keepers, children, language, words

5 people liked it

“There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.”
― Mary Daly

17 people liked it

“Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and simple vocabulary curios; she scratched a few of them on the smooth red wall.”
― Antonya Nelson, Nobody's Girl

tags: words, writing

1 person liked it