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“A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“On the fourth day, a reporter, or maybe a passerby, spits on my face outside the courthouse. My lawyer finds a canteen napkin with which I wipe my face, but there is no time to find a bathroom and wash. I sit with that stranger’s hatred on my face all day.”
― A Burning
― A Burning
“The absurdity of a narwhal experiencing an existential crisis is the key to understanding everything that is wrong about human thinking, and everything that is right about animal thinking.”
― If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
― If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“The Nomad
by Henry Shore
When our ancestors found that wheat
Was a good bread to eat
They settled in Jericho.
All of us are settled now,
But in our souls there is a great woe:
We don’t know where to go.
I am settled in a fine place
I own a house, I live in grace,
I have a patio
But late at night when the wind laments
And the garden shivers—my soul is rent:
I don’t know where to go.
One day when I say good-bye
To life and wife, and die and fly
Somewhere in a great flow
I shall be free to roam again
I’ll try to find but try in vain
Where to go, where to go.”
―
by Henry Shore
When our ancestors found that wheat
Was a good bread to eat
They settled in Jericho.
All of us are settled now,
But in our souls there is a great woe:
We don’t know where to go.
I am settled in a fine place
I own a house, I live in grace,
I have a patio
But late at night when the wind laments
And the garden shivers—my soul is rent:
I don’t know where to go.
One day when I say good-bye
To life and wife, and die and fly
Somewhere in a great flow
I shall be free to roam again
I’ll try to find but try in vain
Where to go, where to go.”
―
Humor is My Genre
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Novels that entertain, bring a smile or a laugh to the reader. They can be any genre, mystery, history, gothic, etc or any theme, but the books must h ...more
Avid’s 2025 Year in Books
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