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Kristine’s Recent Updates
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| I found this graphic novel engrossing nearly till the end. I thought it would be a quick read, but found that it required a good deal of patience. I appreciated the complex narrative(s) and enjoyed piecing together the story. However, I thought the ...more | |
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| I absolutely loved the opening story, polished and perceptive. Unfortunately for me nothing else in the book was like that introduction and seemed more like rambling unfinished journal entries. | |
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| Intriguing and eye-opening. I also enjoyed this interview as a companion piece: https://www.goodreads.com/videos/1418... | |
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So this is that author of the uncomfortable, questionable book, right?
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| Fabian Negrin's illustrations are some of the most beautiful I've seen. The illustrations are the only aspect of the book I enjoy. According to the publisher, "Save the Story is a mission in book form: saving great stories from oblivion by retelling ...more | |
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This Is How It Always Is
by Laurie Frankel (Goodreads Author)
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| I'm glad stories about transgender families are being told. This one brings up many tough questions and decisions about transgender children, adults, and parenting in general. The author has a way with words certainly. This story isn't realistic ...more | |
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| Fabian Negrin's illustrations are some of the most beautiful I've seen. The illustrations are the only aspect of the book I enjoy. According to the publisher, "Save the Story is a mission in book form: saving great stories from oblivion by retelling ...more | |
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| Had to do my neglected homework that I didn't even know was homework (1922 Committee, backbenchers, Fifth Republic) to understand this one. I think it's clever and funny, though nasty (The Metamorphosis notwithstanding). Amusing bits: PM muses over ...more | |
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
by Roald Dahl
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| I don't understand why this book is marketed towards children, with the Quentin Blake cover, shelved in the young readers' section. Dahl's dedication is to those who are not yet adults but no longer children. It's a odd collection of stories, some ...more | |
“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
― Midnight's Children
― Midnight's Children
“What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.”
― The Plague of Doves
― The Plague of Doves
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
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“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.”
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“We pass for what we are.”
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2015 Reading Challenge [Closed]
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Our challenge is based of the Popsugar's Reading Challenge for 2015. Each week, the members read the book of their choice in the right category. This ...more
Our Shared Shelf
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Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading as many books and essays about equality as I can get my hands on. There is so ...more
Kristine’s 2018 Year in Books
Take a look at Kristine’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
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