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Amy Gentry
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Good as Gone
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My Death
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Good Behaviour
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Bad Habits
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Last Woman Standing
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Boys for Pele
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I Am Stronger than Frustration: World of Kids Emotions
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The Habit of Rising Early
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Review: Rachel Aaron's "2K to 10K"
2,000 to 10,000: How to Write Faster, Write Better, and Write More of What You Love by Rachel AaronMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This just shot past Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel and Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence to the top of my list of craft book recommendations for n Read more of this blog post »
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by L.P. Hartley
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| Hurray! I get the feeling Less Than Angels is less often read and cherished than other Pyms, but if you love seeing academics affectionately sent up and paired off it's a real delicacy. As a delightful side bonus, worth a whole extra star it seems to ...more | |
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| Heartrending, and advanced in its depiction of patriarchal culture as inextricable from the evils of capitalism. This is barely a novella, but the subject matter is evergreen. There's a convincing freshness to the manifesto-like passages that make up ...more | |
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Reread via audiobook, thinking if anything could bring me around on The Enchanted April it would be my all-time favorite audiobook narrator Eleanor Bron. Well, the performance is excellent and but the book remains infuriating. After wading through pa ...more |
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"I've decided to stop resisting the impulse to give Barbara Pym novels 5 stars, because let's face it, I love them. Despite her trademark lightness and wit, however, this is a fantastically grim and bleak novel. 4 friends -- or rather, colleagues, for"
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"It's funny-I just reviewed a horror novel (Elizabeth) and noted how composed and sedate it was and how I didn't really find it as exciting as I expected and then, here's 'Quartet in Autumn' by an author who's practically an avatar of sedate British s"
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'Father G's coming in for a bite before the PCC meeting and I'll do one of my specials - baked beans on toast with a poached egg on top.' This is Pym at her bleakest but I'm not sure I see this book as about aging and retirement as most reviews se" Read more of this review » |
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| Hard to imagine Pym in a more Brooknerian mode than in this book about a set of four elderly office workers obstinately refusing to become friends, even as each slides further into the loneliness that prefigures the grave. Norman, Edwin, Letty, and M ...more | |
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| This was a nice palate cleanser after listening to a lot of audiobooks. I read it in a day. Not a lot happens, except for the main character Dulcie doing some light snooping and stalking for reasons that only become entirely clear late in the book. D ...more | |
“Maybe once you've been left by the most important person in your life, you can never be unleft again. Maybe you're destined to be abandoned even by your own guts, maybe your foot walks off with your thighbone, why not, stranger things have happened.”
― Good as Gone
― Good as Gone
“Maybe once you’ve been left by the most important person in your life, you can never be unleft again.”
― Good as Gone
― Good as Gone
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“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Beautiful writing becomes beautiful when it loses its harmony and has the desperate power of the ugly.”
― In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
― In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
“Where have you been?" she cried. "Damn you, where have you been?" She took a few steps toward Schmendrick, but she was looking beyond him, at the unicorn.
When she tried to get by, the magician stood in her way. "You don't talk like that," he told her, still uncertain that Molly had recognized the unicorn. "Don't you know how to behave, woman? You don't curtsy, either."
But Molly pushed him aside and went up to the unicorn, scolding her as though she were a strayed milk cow. "Where have you been?" Before the whiteness and the shining horn, Molly shrank to a shrilling beetle, but this time it was the unicorn's old dark eyes that looked down.
"I am here now," she said at last.
Molly laughed with her lips flat. "And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?" With a flap of her hand she summed herself up: barren face, desert eyes, and yellowing heart. "I wish you had never come. Why did you come now?" The tears began to slide down the sides of her nose.
The unicorn made no reply, and Schmendrick said, "She is the last. She is the last unicorn in the world."
"She would be." Molly sniffed. "It would be the last unicorn in the world to come to Molly Grue." She reached up then to lay her hand on the unicorn's cheek; but both of them flinched a little, and the touch came to rest on on the swift, shivering place under the jaw. Molly said, "It's all right. I forgive you.”
― The Last Unicorn
When she tried to get by, the magician stood in her way. "You don't talk like that," he told her, still uncertain that Molly had recognized the unicorn. "Don't you know how to behave, woman? You don't curtsy, either."
But Molly pushed him aside and went up to the unicorn, scolding her as though she were a strayed milk cow. "Where have you been?" Before the whiteness and the shining horn, Molly shrank to a shrilling beetle, but this time it was the unicorn's old dark eyes that looked down.
"I am here now," she said at last.
Molly laughed with her lips flat. "And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?" With a flap of her hand she summed herself up: barren face, desert eyes, and yellowing heart. "I wish you had never come. Why did you come now?" The tears began to slide down the sides of her nose.
The unicorn made no reply, and Schmendrick said, "She is the last. She is the last unicorn in the world."
"She would be." Molly sniffed. "It would be the last unicorn in the world to come to Molly Grue." She reached up then to lay her hand on the unicorn's cheek; but both of them flinched a little, and the touch came to rest on on the swift, shivering place under the jaw. Molly said, "It's all right. I forgive you.”
― The Last Unicorn
“It really is a sign of appalling feebleness, I thought, if people fill their apartments with furniture belonging to past ages rather than their own, the harshness and brutality of which they are unable to endure. What they do, it seems to me, is surround themselves with the softness of the dead past that cannot answer back.”
― Woodcutters
― Woodcutters
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It wasn't me who gave the five stars to The Sacred Fount, Amy—it's the only HJ that didn't work for me. And I don't use star ratings at all. Maybe you meant the friend request for someone else? Though it's true I've read all the other writers you mentioned as inspirations: Spark, Woolf, Highsmith, Brookner. I've even read Gone Girl:-(
Ha! I may have mixed you up, but I definitely meant the friend request--I've followed you for a while and love your reviews and shelves. And I certainly don't blame anyone for disliking The Sacred Fount--it is perverse, nearly unreadable and utterly ridiculous! I am totally fascinated by it but I would never argue that it's a successful book.