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Norman’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Norman’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Norman Draper
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in Atlanta, Georgia, The United States
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August 2013
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Better Luck with my Reading
Since my last, somewhat mournful blog, I'm pleased to say I've had a string of successes in my reading. Start off with Mark Helprin's "In Sunlight and In Shadow." Typical Helprin tome, coming in at 700 pages-plus. Big and heroic, a bit like something that might have been written generations ago. It's a quick read for a book so long, and lacks Helprin's usual mastery of a magical way of writing lik
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| Gardener's Group : * Giveaway! Enter after reading Rules by 11:59pm EST on 2/20 - Winner announced 2/21! | 20 | 28 | Mar 04, 2015 05:24PM |
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The other day I was thinking of books I couldn't come close to finishing. I'm afraid Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" was one of them. And "Finnigan's Wake," of course. But at least with those books I was able to knock off a few pages, or maybe even a chapter. Not so with "The Egoist" by George Meredith. That was a book I stopped reading after the first sentence! Awhile back, I looked the book up to revisit that offending sentence. Here it is: "There was an ominously anxious watch of eyes visible and invisible over the infancy of Willoughby, fifth in descent from Simon Patterne, of Patterne Hall, premier of this family, a lawyer, a man of solid acquirements and stout ambition, who well understood the foundation-work of a House, and was endowed with the power of saying No to those first agents of destruction, besieging relatives."
Now, does that suck you in or what!
