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| It is hard to know what to say that won't give some of the slowly unrevealed story away. It's just a game player from Culture going off to play a larger game. I read it in an afternoon. | |
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The war(s) in the Balkans divided families, sometimes for decades, and that is the premise at the center of this novel. Two sisters, Magdalena and Jadranka, are now adults and the younger sister has gone missing in New York Sister. The story winds ar...more |
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| In trying to describe this book, I end up with a fairly long list - a journal of 16 year old Nao living in Japan, her great-uncle's diaries from World War II, a biography of her grandmother Niko, and a later-parallel story of Ruth, an author living i...more | |
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The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists
by William Ferris
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PW 4/22/13
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
― Jorge Luis Borges
“He did not want to play. He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld. He did not know where to seek it or how, but a premonition which led him on told him that this image would, without any overt act of his, encounter him. They would meet quietly as if they had known each other and had made their tryst, perhaps at one of the gates or in some more secret place. They would be alone, surrounded by darkness and silence: and in that moment of supreme tenderness he would be transfigured.
He would fade into something impalpable under her eyes and then in a moment he would be transfigured. Weakness and timidity and inexperience would fall from him in that magic moment.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
He would fade into something impalpable under her eyes and then in a moment he would be transfigured. Weakness and timidity and inexperience would fall from him in that magic moment.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons”
― Adrienne Rich
― Adrienne Rich
“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. there is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
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Around the USA in 52 Books (2013)
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50 states, plus DC, plus one week for a road trip, train trip, or hike. Open to everyone, not just people living in the USA.
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Whether you prefer Faulkner, O'Connor, McCullers or more recent authors of Southern Literature such as Clyde Edgerton, Tom Franklin, William Gay, or M...more
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Fiction and some nonfiction set in Turkey, Western Asia, and Africa. Illustrated detail from a manuscript about the Laila and Majnun story. http://rik...more
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