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Alice’s 2019 Year in Books
Take a look at Alice’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Alice K. Boatwright
Goodreads Author
Born
in New Haven, Connecticut, The United States
November 05
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Influences
From Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf to Richard Brautigan and Bruce Spr
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Member Since
August 2012
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Under an English Heaven (Ellie Kent Mystery #1)
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2014
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What Child Is This? (Ellie Kent Mystery, #2)
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2017
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Collateral Damage
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2012
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5 editions
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Sea, Sky, Islands: Three stories
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The things worth writing about
The poet Jack Gilbert said the only things worth writing about were: ”Love, death, man, virtue, nature, magnitude, excellence, evil, suffering, courage, morality. What is the good life. What is honor. Who am I.”
So what about women? I suppose many subjects I would add to the list fit under virtue, magnitude, etc. But only a man would still use “man” in that way.
I’m reading a book about women in 17 Read more of this blog post »
So what about women? I suppose many subjects I would add to the list fit under virtue, magnitude, etc. But only a man would still use “man” in that way.
I’m reading a book about women in 17 Read more of this blog post »
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Under an English Heaven: An Ellie Kent Mystery (Ellie Kent Mystery, #1):
"Loved the twists and turns, getting to know the people in this small town. I was left guessing up to the very end.
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| I adored this book. The writing is just wonderful. The author vividly depicts the world of the "basti" (an urban Indian slum) and the people who live there. I lived in India as a child, and I have never forgotten its beauty or its unresolvable parado ...more | |
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| I adored this book. The writing is just wonderful. The author vividly depicts the world of the "basti" (an urban Indian slum) and the people who live there. I lived in India as a child, and I have never forgotten its beauty or its unresolvable parado ...more | |
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| I've heard about these books for ages and finally decided to start the series. Martin's later books might be better, but this one turned me off from the first pages. . . where she wakes up (with too much laborious detail), answers the phone, and then ...more | |
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Walking to the End of the World: A Thousand Miles on the Camino de Santiago
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| Just finished reading Beth Jusino's WALKING TO THE END OF THE WORLD about her three-month pilgrimage from Le Puy in France to Santiago de Compostela (and on to Finistere on the coast) in Spain. A fantastic way to start the year. . .walking a 1,000 mi ...more | |
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| I loved this book, set in 1999 in Seattle, but focused on unraveling a mystery that goes back to the era of the 1960s and 70s. . . Vietnam, the Black Panthers, and both the exuberant and the dark sides of the revolution-that-was-often-televised. Rach ...more | |
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| I loved this book, set in 1999 in Seattle, but focused on unraveling a mystery that goes back to the era of the 1960s and 70s. . . Vietnam, the Black Panthers, and both the exuberant and the dark sides of the revolution-that-was-often-televised. Rach ...more | |
“their combined voices giving them a unity and strength they did not possess in ordinary life.”
― Under an English Heaven: An Ellie Kent Mystery
― Under an English Heaven: An Ellie Kent Mystery
“Of course, I don’t mind,” said Ellie, who was always pleased when doing what she wanted was interpreted as selfless,”
― Under an English Heaven: An Ellie Kent Mystery
― Under an English Heaven: An Ellie Kent Mystery
“it never worked to pray for results. You had to pray for acceptance of the results, whatever they were.”
― Under an English Heaven: An Ellie Kent Mystery
― Under an English Heaven: An Ellie Kent Mystery
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