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03/10
Rachel
is currently reading:
The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5) by Lemony Snicket bookshelves: currently-reading |
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01/18
Rachel
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Neverwhere (Hardcover) by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author) bookshelves: currently-reading |
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| June 16 | ||
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback) by Susanna Clarke |
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read in June, 2009
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The Secret History (Paperback) by Donna Tartt bookshelves: to-read |
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| May 25 | ||
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Saturday (Paperback) by Ian McEwan |
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read in May, 2009
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| May 23 | ||
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marked as to-read:
Safety of Objects (Paperback) by A.M. Homes bookshelves: to-read |
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marked as to-read:
Seattle Noir (Akashic Noir) by Curt Colbert bookshelves: to-read |
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| May 11 | ||
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"Perowne, born the year before the Suez crisis, too young for the Cuban missiles, or the construction of the Berlin Wall, or Kennedy’s assassination, remembers being tearful over Aberfan in ‘sixty-six — one hundred and sixteen schoolchildren just like himself, fresh from prayers in school assembly, the day before half-term, buried under a sea of mud. This was when he first suspected that the kindly child-loving God extolled by his headmistress might not exist. As it turned out, most major world events suggested the same. But for Theo’s sincerely godless generation, the question hasn’t come up. No one in his bright, plate-glass, forward-looking school ever asked him to pray, or sing an impenetrable cheery hymn. There’s no entity for him to doubt. His initiation, in front of the TV, before the dissolving towers, was intense but he adapted quickly. These days he scans the papers for fresh developments the way he might a listings magazine. As long as there’s nothing new, his mind is free. International terror, security cordons, preparations for war — these represent the steady state, the weather. Emerging into adult consciousness, this is the world he finds." — Ian McEwan | |
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The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book 3) by Philip Pullman |
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read in May, 2009
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| March 23 | ||
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The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) by Philip Pullman |
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read in December, 1997, has a copy to sell/swap
Rachel said:
"I just love reading YA sci-fi/fantasy that deals with religion and morality. I read this book so long ago that all I remembered about the themes were "adults are creepy and evil" and "epic adventure". A great book to reread and re...more
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"All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
is Change.
God
is Change.
EARTHSEED:THE BOOKS OF LIVING"
— Octavia E. Butler (Parable of the Sower)
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
is Change.
God
is Change.
EARTHSEED:THE BOOKS OF LIVING"
— Octavia E. Butler (Parable of the Sower)
"If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies. Like a lot of American kids, I read this book in school. Presumably it was not a coincidence. Presumably someone wanted to point out to us that we were savages, and that we had made ourselves a cruel and stupid world. This was too subtle for me. While the book seemed entirely believable, I didn't get the additional message. I wish they had just told us outright that we were savages and our world was stupid."
— Paul Graham
— Paul Graham
"Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
--The Stolen Child"
— William Butler Yeats (The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats)
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
--The Stolen Child"
— William Butler Yeats (The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats)
"I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. "
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)
— Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)
""Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.""
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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