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Cathy Marie Buchanan
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The Painted Girls
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2012
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The Day the Falls Stood Still
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Bois de Boulogne: A Short Story
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| Inspired by the real events of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Effigy is set on a Mormon ranch in 19th C Utah. Masterfully told from the points of view of the wives (yes, wives!) of a polygamous house breeder, this fascinating tale haunted me in just ...more | |
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| My editor thought I’d love Astonish Me, and she was right. Maggie Shipstead pulls her readers into the demanding, complicated world of professional ballet and delivers a dazzling story on the nature of talent, artistic ambition and love that I couldn ...more | |
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| I loved Seating Arrangements as much as Astonish Me and am now waiting with baited breath for more from Maggie Shipstead. The Van Meters have gathered at their vacation house for a wedding. Beneath the family’s polished surface, all is not well, part ...more | |
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| I read Virginia Woolf in my twenties and didn’t quite understand the praise heaped on her work. With this latest reading, though, I get it. She writes straight from her soul. We get unadulterated sensation, fleeting beauty, passing imaginings. | |
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| The middle section of To the Lighthouse is called Time Passes. In twenty pages, Woolf sweeps through ten years. Wind blows, poppies seed themselves, a family ages, three of its members die, nature ravages a summerhouse. It’s some of the most (perhaps ...more | |
“In those clouds I have seen aberrations-flecks of shimmering silver, orbs of color a shade more intense than their surroundings. I have seen them more than once, and I haves decided they are prayers, mine and everyone else's, too.”
― The Day the Falls Stood Still
― The Day the Falls Stood Still
“It is about being born downtrodden and staying that way. Hard work makes no difference, he is saying. My lot, the lots of those around me, were cast the moment we were born into the gutter to parents who never managed to step outside the gutter themselves.”
― The Painted Girls
― The Painted Girls
“Willfulness, such as yours, is exactly what a girl needs to raise herself up to do something useful with her life.”
― The Painted Girls
― The Painted Girls
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“It is about being born downtrodden and staying that way. Hard work makes no difference, he is saying. My lot, the lots of those around me, were cast the moment we were born into the gutter to parents who never managed to step outside the gutter themselves.”
― The Painted Girls
― The Painted Girls
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Cathy, thanx for accepting my friend request :)
