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Come, Thief by Jane HirshfieldMy rating: 5 of 5 starsCert...
Come, Thief by Jane HirshfieldMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Certainly one of Jane Hirshfield's finest collections---how she shows the everyday to be both evanescent and numinous. How she makes the tragic and comic in our lives from simple words and images.
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March 8, 2014
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
The March by E.L. Doctorow
The Cambridge Companion to Dante by Rachel Jacoff
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
The March by E.L. Doctorow
The Cambridge Companion to Dante by Rachel Jacoff
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
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February 22, 2014
The Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth GalbraithMy ratin...
The Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth GalbraithMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Sad to see how much Galbraith's prediction came true: that collective amnesia could eventually lead to another boom and bust almost as bad as the 1929 crash.
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February 15, 2014
Given Sugar, Given Salt by Jane HirshfieldMy rating: 4 of...
Given Sugar, Given Salt by Jane HirshfieldMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Jane Hirshfield has written better collections, but this one still resonates with her revisioning of the most commonplace of things and events into the deeply significant. When so much poetry seemingly is written to exclude the reader, Hirshfield intimately and profoundly includes us.
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February 9, 2014
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerMy rating: 3 of 5 ...
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Perhaps I missed too much having not read this when I was 16 or so. I certainly can still recall the sense I had then that I was from another planet and terribly unlike everyone else in the world. There is a necessary narcissism to being that young and building some sense of self from apparently nothing. The scene where Holden walks streets fearful he will disappear is also something I can remember feeling when his age. Nonetheless, there were other novels I have read that have made a greater impact on me and probably would still be more impactful even if I had read Catcher 50 years ago. But who knows? maybe I am being a phony?
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