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Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.86 — 272,895 ratings — published 2008
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,067,710 ratings — published 1992
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,227,650 ratings — published 2017
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,455,205 ratings — published 2017
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,921,056 ratings — published 2018
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.27 — 962,060 ratings — published 2015
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.14 — 370,291 ratings — published 1989
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.83 — 617,930 ratings — published 2014
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.10 — 437,910 ratings — published 2020
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,241,706 ratings — published 2012
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,259,741 ratings — published 1963
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.60 — 586,539 ratings — published 2018
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.67 — 388,778 ratings — published 2016
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.32 — 683,468 ratings — published 2016
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,894,994 ratings — published 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,698,571 ratings — published 2018
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.56 — 132,883 ratings — published 2015
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,943,201 ratings — published 1951
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.46 — 840,152 ratings — published 2022
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,057,931 ratings — published 2013
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,009,881 ratings — published 1925
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,942,563 ratings — published 1818
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.79 — 372,540 ratings — published 2024
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,394,036 ratings — published 2018
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,405,231 ratings — published 2022
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,329,791 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.12 — 869,252 ratings — published 2020
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.65 — 413,470 ratings — published 2007
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.77 — 363,955 ratings — published 1925
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,612,238 ratings — published 2003
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.87 — 960,049 ratings — published 1955
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,450,346 ratings — published 1942
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.08 — 217,919 ratings — published 2003
Annie Bot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.83 — 72,295 ratings — published 2024
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.17 — 241,403 ratings — published 1864
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,544,187 ratings — published 2020
Writers & Lovers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.99 — 201,284 ratings — published 2020
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.91 — 304,980 ratings — published 1962
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,492,693 ratings — published 2012
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.05 — 485,532 ratings — published 2011
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.87 — 603,816 ratings — published 2012
The Wedding People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,199,571 ratings — published 2024
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.08 — 476,038 ratings — published 2021
The Librarianist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.41 — 24,682 ratings — published 2023
The Guest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.27 — 117,748 ratings — published 2023
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.09 — 741,049 ratings — published 1966
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.91 — 236,438 ratings — published 2009
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 3.93 — 166,375 ratings — published 2009
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.35 — 267,462 ratings — published 1965
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as character-study)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,361,627 ratings — published 1847
“He had never seen a woman look like that, he thought, fascinated despite his worry for Henry. She had tied back her outrageous hair and wrapped her head carefully in a cloth like a Negro slave woman. With her face so exposed, the delicate bones made stark, the intentness of her expression -- with those yellow eyes darting like a hawk's from one thing to another -- was the most unwomanly thing he had ever seen. It was the look of a general marshaling his troops for battle, and seeing it, he felt the ball of snakes in his belly relax a little.
She knows what she's doing, he thought.
She looked at him then, and he straightened his shoulders, instinctively awaiting orders -- to his utter amazement.”
― An Echo in the Bone
She knows what she's doing, he thought.
She looked at him then, and he straightened his shoulders, instinctively awaiting orders -- to his utter amazement.”
― An Echo in the Bone
“The Peacock & The Eagle: Cleopatra's Entry Into Tarsus by Stewart Stafford
Cleopatra arrives, regal and mighty,
From ocean spray as Aphrodite,
Wealthy and waif, yearning for her,
Dared all to defy her possessive aura.
Mark Antony, struck by her sultry gaze,
Lepidus, prisoner in a bureaucrat's maze,
Sees power slipping from a friend’s hand,
Ensnared by a siren from a scorched land.
Lepidus was Caesar's trusted right hand;
A granule falling through hourglass sand,
Antony, headstrong military provocateur;
Funeral orator from bloody crown auteur.
Bargain's scorpion pincers; no longer twain:
Cleopatra was Ceres, promising Rome grain,
Antony was Mars' armed emissary,
Business and pleasure's flood tributary.
Antony: "Barge of emerald, Elysium's onyx!
Beyond counsel words of sage sardonic,
Gliding the Cydnus's silken seam,
This Nile Helen shall be my queen."
Lepidus: "Pleasure vessel of a floating whore,
Yours for a sesterce on the Tiber's shore,
Honour your oath, noble Roman creed,
Lest passion’s shipwreck sets out to sea.”
"This Venus virago on her mirage barge;
Serpent prow, silver oars, rhythmic charge!
What hubris to think she can equal,
The bloody talons of our Roman eagle!"
Antony: "Feast your eyes past peacock's bower,
She speaks Rome's tongue of naked power.
Mark it, that obsidian Sphinx stings -
Human head, lion's body, eagle wings!
"That is the form she takes to the public:
I smell a perfumed alliance for the Republic!
With Plebeians as her tickled cats, they hum,
I crave her beauty and company. Come!"
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
Cleopatra arrives, regal and mighty,
From ocean spray as Aphrodite,
Wealthy and waif, yearning for her,
Dared all to defy her possessive aura.
Mark Antony, struck by her sultry gaze,
Lepidus, prisoner in a bureaucrat's maze,
Sees power slipping from a friend’s hand,
Ensnared by a siren from a scorched land.
Lepidus was Caesar's trusted right hand;
A granule falling through hourglass sand,
Antony, headstrong military provocateur;
Funeral orator from bloody crown auteur.
Bargain's scorpion pincers; no longer twain:
Cleopatra was Ceres, promising Rome grain,
Antony was Mars' armed emissary,
Business and pleasure's flood tributary.
Antony: "Barge of emerald, Elysium's onyx!
Beyond counsel words of sage sardonic,
Gliding the Cydnus's silken seam,
This Nile Helen shall be my queen."
Lepidus: "Pleasure vessel of a floating whore,
Yours for a sesterce on the Tiber's shore,
Honour your oath, noble Roman creed,
Lest passion’s shipwreck sets out to sea.”
"This Venus virago on her mirage barge;
Serpent prow, silver oars, rhythmic charge!
What hubris to think she can equal,
The bloody talons of our Roman eagle!"
Antony: "Feast your eyes past peacock's bower,
She speaks Rome's tongue of naked power.
Mark it, that obsidian Sphinx stings -
Human head, lion's body, eagle wings!
"That is the form she takes to the public:
I smell a perfumed alliance for the Republic!
With Plebeians as her tickled cats, they hum,
I crave her beauty and company. Come!"
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
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