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12/20
Caroline
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The Road (Hardcover) by Cormac McCarthy bookshelves: currently-reading |
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| March 23 | ||
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mass Market Paperback) by Mark Twain |
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read in March, 2008 
Caroline said:
"This was the first time I'd ever read this book of Twain's and it's quite unlike any of his other works. It's in the guise of a children's book, but for the life of me I could not see a child understanding and appreciating the application of a ninet...more
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| March 15 | ||
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"The belief that a man who works hard can erase all his sins runs deep in the folds of my family, and, I suspect, into the Midwestern landscape in which we were all raised." — John T. Price | |
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"It's a wonderful epiphany: with a lie I can change reality; with a lie I can change the world." — Brady Udall | |
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"It's in a neighbor's house fiction begins." — Dermot Healy | |
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Caroline
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"We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience." — Joan Didion | |
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback) by Kurt Vonnegut |
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His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) by Philip Pullman |
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The Kite Runner (Paperback) by Khaled Hosseini |
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read in March, 2008
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"One of few books these days that ended the way it needed to. A great story.
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Paperback) by Gregory Maguire |
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Atonement: A Novel (Paperback) by Ian McEwan |
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read in February, 2008
Caroline said:
"Well-written, but something was missing. Everyone talked about how sad it was, but though the story itself was sad, it didn't move me. Being a very sensitive person, I can only conclude the flaw was in the prose.
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Caroline's favorite quotes
"People who claim they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of. "
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)
"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)
"“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” "
— Joan Didion
— Joan Didion
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