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Claire S
is currently reading
bookshelves:
id-constructs-race-gender,
class-relations,
fiction,
global,
g_pakistan,
historical,
horror-suspense-mystery-thriller,
islam,
language,
novel,
obama-term-1,
pol-historical,
politics-learning,
pol-paradigm-shift-pssbl,
pov-content_indian-am,
religion-morality,
thtr-art-film-music-etc,
war-mltry-conflt-occ,
g_cities,
human-damage-healing-fict,
struggles-of-use,
synthesis,
human-poison-aired-out-fict,
events-based-urgency,
cultural-texts-or-involving-them,
fin-econ,
form_complexia,
g_colonialism,
g_imperialism,
g_india-and,
glimpses-considerable,
indexia,
meaning-life-etc,
on-writing,
philosophy,
pol-luminescent,
pov-content_global-of-location,
psyche-of,
sobriety-spirituality,
to-re-read-soon,
unplsnt-b-good,
women,
workplace,
currently-reading
Reading for the 2nd time
read in February 2010
Claire S said:
"
Seems like potentially the perfect antidote to my current conundrum of hard-to-read Great Literature ala my daughter's class, and tedious Mom-sourced current novels.. And starts out engagingly interestingly!
I've wanted to get around to this for so l ...more "
progress:
(page 25 of 916)
"2nd _: Love it. It's like visiting and old friend. In an interview, Chakram talks of his younger sister who says: Don't Bore Me! He doesn't." — Mar 02, 2010 04:14AM
"2nd _: Love it. It's like visiting and old friend. In an interview, Chakram talks of his younger sister who says: Don't Bore Me! He doesn't." — Mar 02, 2010 04:14AM
Claire S
is currently reading
by James Joyce
bookshelves:
g_cmfrm_eire,
classics,
fiction,
form_complexia,
global,
historical,
language,
on-writing,
a-5-evertimeless-interest,
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Reading for the 2nd time
progress:
(page 18 of 192)
"And the 2nd story, 2nd of 3 from child's perspective - also involving scary man. Hmmm.." — Dec 08, 2009 06:41AM
"And the 2nd story, 2nd of 3 from child's perspective - also involving scary man. Hmmm.." — Dec 08, 2009 06:41AM
Claire S
is currently reading
by James Joyce
bookshelves:
g_cmfrm_eire,
fiction-not-at-all,
form_complexia,
f_interpretations,
global,
historical,
language,
on-writing,
pol-historical,
religion-morality,
currently-reading
Claire S said:
"
How did I never run into Joyce at any level in approximately 24 years of some-kind-of-schooling going on? I mean, I heard of him, but not through school at all I don't think. So wrong. So so so wrong. I believe he's only within my radar now due to Go ...more "
progress:
(page 102 of 240)
"Finished first part, about a fifth. Wow, very enveloping and rich.." — Dec 06, 2009 05:07PM
"Finished first part, about a fifth. Wow, very enveloping and rich.." — Dec 06, 2009 05:07PM
“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― A Man Without a Country
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― A Man Without a Country
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― How Reading Changed My Life
― How Reading Changed My Life
“Estragon: Nothing to be done.”
― Waiting for Godot
― Waiting for Godot
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