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07/14
Suzanne
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The Apprentice: My Life In The Kitchen (Hardcover) by Jacques Pepin bookshelves: currently-reading |
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07/14
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Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (Hardcover) by Tobias Wolff bookshelves: currently-reading |
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07/07
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An American Family: The Buckleys (Hardcover) by Reid Buckley bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Secret Sharer (Paperback) by Joseph Conrad bookshelves: read-in-school |
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The Painted Veil (Paperback) by W. Somerset Maugham bookshelves: to-read |
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The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous bookshelves: to-read |
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| July 24 | ||
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Suzanne
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South of the Northeast Kingdom (National Geographic Directions) by David Mamet bookshelves: biography, travel |
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In This House of Brede (Paperback) by Rumer Godden bookshelves: spiritual |
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recommended for: to those interested in monastic life
read in July, 2008 
Suzanne said:
"A beautifully written story by Rumer Godden about monastic life. It is a fictional work but is said to be based upon monastic life at Stanwood Abbey in England. Godden lived on the property for three years while researching this seemingly curious l...more
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Memoria De Mis Putas Tristes / Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Paperback) by Gabriel García Márquez bookshelves: to-read |
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The Cloister Walk (Paperback) by Kathleen Norris bookshelves: spiritual |
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recommended for: those interested in monastic life
read in January, 1998
Suzanne said:
"Recently reread after completing In This House of Brede. Norris is a married Protestant poet and a Benedictine oblate. As a poet and a Benedictine she is drawn to the Psalms in the Bible and their poetic imagery. This book is about the time she spe...more
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Suzanne
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Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (Paperback) by Howard Gardner bookshelves: nonfiction, parenting |
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read in January, 1991
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"Recommended by my sister..
Gardner's work is one of the great rebuttals to those who advocate the use of standardized testing scores as an appropriate measure of teaching and learning. It opened my eyes. " |
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The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon (3rd edition) by David Elkind bookshelves: parenting |
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read in January, 1984
Suzanne said:
"The gold standard..often quoted by my late mother-in-law, a veteran kindergarten teacher who didn't retire until her mid-seventies..
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Suzanne's favorite quotes
"I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe
— Marilyn Monroe
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy (Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy)
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy (Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy)
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)
— Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)
"If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)
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