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I picked this book up a few months ago, flush with my first paycheck as the Posner Intern for CMU Libraries. I finally finished Cryptonomicon and so can pick up a new tomb. Thus far I am finding The Court Years to be a great complement to my Bill of
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I think my mother gave this book to me two Christmases ago. It is about a reporter who starts studying (and then training at) a boxing gym in a poor Boston suburb. Not only is learning about boxing interesting and exiting, the subtitle of the book
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Good Poems for Hard Times
by Garrison Keillor
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Anyone who does not truly hate the midwest (Poetry Geeks)
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| I read all of these poems out of order and it was amazing. Right now I'm stuck on the love poetry "Darling I never knew such loving", "Wedding poem for Shel and Phil", "The discovery of sex", and "There comes the strangest moment". But there are ...more | |
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Inferno (La Divina Commedia #1)
by Dante Alighieri
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Intelectuals who like to have the Italian next to the English (English Geeks)
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| This book nearly converted me to Christianity. The clarity of purpose, the beautiful imagery and the uncompromisingly human and moral world-view. Using Dorthy Sayers' commentary as a supplements, this book is a joy to read. The notes are fascinating, ...more | |
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Danse Macabre (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #14)
by Laurell K. Hamilton (Goodreads Author)
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people who like vampire stories and can handle/skip smut
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| I like this book because I like Anita Blake. I like the character, her honesty and wit and stubborn values (you really have to read it to understand why she is a Vampire Hunter and moral). In this book Anita's relationships get a lot more functional, ...more | |
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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author)
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Those interested in views on faith and radicalism
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| Between Dante and Anne Lamott I might convert from Paganism to Christianity. But no. Ms Lamott Anne Lamott is hilarious. If you can only read one chapter, read the one where she goes through holy week in a hotel room at a ski resort with a friend ...more | |
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| I have been talking about this book with a lot of people, many of whom looked at the title and said "isn't that a contradiction in terms?" I usually then go into a mini-lecture on "family feminism", that is, feminism which promotes women's equal ...more | |
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| I picked this book up a few months ago, flush with my first paycheck as the Posner Intern for CMU Libraries. I finally finished Cryptonomicon and so can pick up a new tomb. Thus far I am finding The Court Years to be a great complement to my Bill of ...more | |
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“Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?
Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice.
God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can't even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It's up to you to do the stitching.
Harper: And then up you get. And walk around.
Mormon Mother: Just mangled guts pretending.
Harper: That's how people change.”
― Angels in America
Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice.
God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can't even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It's up to you to do the stitching.
Harper: And then up you get. And walk around.
Mormon Mother: Just mangled guts pretending.
Harper: That's how people change.”
― Angels in America
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